114 results for: Miller, Robert H.
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Former Black Panther Party headquarters house, Seattle, 1973
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17-year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.04
Date:1973
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Notice on former Black Panther party headquarters house, Seattle, 1973
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17-year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.05
Date:1973
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Juan Boanegra speaking at immigration rally on UW campus, Seattle, March 17, 1974
Juan Jose Bocanegra (b. 1949) was born in Mexico and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. He moved to Seattle in 1971 to earn a graduate degree in social work from the University of Washington (UW), where he helped lead a successful campaign to diversify the UW School of Social work and create its multi-ethnic practice program. Mr. Bocanegra then began…
ID Number:2000.107.023.19.01
Date:1974
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Three Chinese women receiving citizenship papers, February 10, 1979
On February 10, 1979, three long-time Seattle residents received their naturalization papers from Federal Court clerk Joe T. Ramame to become American citizens. The women were all born in China, and had lived in Seattle for 28-47 years. Here, Ramame hands Sau Chee Chin her naturalization papers, while Lee Shee Eng and Lim Tan-ying Eng wait behind her. Tan-ying Eng's…
ID Number:2000.107.036.09.06
Date:1979
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Mark Cook giving an interview at Walla Walla State Penitentiary, January 1978
Mark Edwin Cook (b. 1936) was born in Seattle and grew up in the Seattle's Central Area. First arrested at age 17, Cook was in and out of prison for petty crimes until 1973. After his release, he became involved with the George Jackson Brigade, a small revolutionary group in Seattle that committed mostly property crimes to draw attention to…
ID Number:2000.107.041.03.01
Date:1978
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Ida May Daly, Seattle, September 1979
Ida May Daly, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed muscular dystrophy at age three. While this progressive disease weakened her muscles and confined her to a wheelchair in her thirties, it challenged her to become a tireless advocate for people with disabilities. In the 1950s, she worked with the Seattle Parks Department to found and run the Handicapped Center, which…
ID Number:2000.107.044.037.01
Date:1979
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Barbara Bergano and Lope Malle roasting a pig at Seafair Fiesta Filipina, Seattle, August 7, 1971
Fiesta Filipina (also Philippine Festival) began as an annual event commemorating the anniversary of Philippine Independence. The event was held at Seward Park and became part of Seafair, Seattle's ten-week-long summer festival. In 1987 the event was moved to the Seattle Center, where by 1997 it had been renamed Pagdiriwang and become one of the five ethnic and cultural festivals…
ID Number:2000.107.062.03.02
Date:1971
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Councilman John Miller planting squash at P-Patch garden, Seattle, May 1974
"P-Patch," a term specific to Seattle, refers to a parcel of property used for gardening allotments. The "P" originally stood for "Picardo," after the family that loaned its northeast Seattle farm for a community garden on property first leased and later bought by the city. In 1973 the City of Seattle bought the Picardo Farm property and created a community…
ID Number:2000.107.072.25.06
Date:1974
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L. Jane Hastings, 1977
L. Jane Hastings (1928-2024) grew up in West Seattle and began studying architecture at the University of Washington in 1946, the only woman in a class of 200. In 1953, Hastings became the eighth woman licensed as an architect in Washington State and went on to become the principal of Washington’s oldest woman-owned architecture firm in 1959. Hastings was also…
ID Number:2000.107.084.32.01
Date:1977
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Lottie J. Fenton, Charles James, and Ione H. Knox in Seattle, May 2, 1971
This image shows Lottie J. Fenton, left, Charles James, and Ione H. Knox, all members of the Duwamish Tribe, at the Indian Center on Boren Avenue and Stewart Street. They are listening to a description as to how local Native peoples might obtain permission from the State Department of Fisheries to harvest some of the expected heavy salmon run into…
ID Number:2000.107.095.26.02
Date:1971