148 results for: National Events
Photograph
Impromptu memorial service for Martin Luther King, Jr. on UW campus, Seattle, April 5, 1968
The assassination of minister and civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) on April 4, 1968 led to a nationwide wave of grief, demonstrations, and riots. Memorials were held across the country, and President Lyndon B. Johnson declared April 7 a national day of mourning.In this image a crowd gathers together in front of the Husky Union…
ID Number:1986.5.31473.1
Date:1968
Photograph
Rev. Samuel B. McKinney delivering eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., Seattle, April 4, 1968
The assassination of minister and civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) on April 4 led to a nationwide wave of grief, demonstrations, and riots. Memorials were held across the country, and President Lyndon B. Johnson declared April 7 a national day of mourning.In this image Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney (1926-) gives a eulogy for Dr.…
ID Number:1986.5.31474.1
Date:1968
Photograph
Pastors leading memorial service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Seattle, April 4, 1968
The assassination of minister and civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) on April 4 led to a nationwide wave of grief, demonstrations, and riots. Memorials were held across the country, and President Lyndon B. Johnson declared April 7 a national day of mourning .In this image Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney (1926-) sits with other church…
ID Number:1986.5.50986.1
Date:1968
Photograph
Jimmy Carter speaking to media after viewing Mt. St. Helens eruption zone, Kelso, May 22, 1980
Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) was the Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was both the longest-lived and the longest-retired President in US history. After leaving the White House, Carter worked on fighting communicable disease, helped build housing for low-income families, and promoted human rights, for which he…
ID Number:2000.107.032.36.05
Date:1980
Photograph
Delegates attending the Eng Family Convention pose together, Seattle, September 25, 1962
Here, a group of Chinese American men pose together in a building at 420 Eighth Avenue South in Seattle's Chinatown International District. The men were in town to attend the fourth annual convention of the Eng Family Association, hosted by Lock Tin Eng, president of the Seattle chapter. The convention drew 37 Eng family members from all over the country…
ID Number:2000.107.036.09.02
Date:1962
Photograph
Three Washington state Klansmen at rally, Seattle, circa 1923
A resurgence of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) movement between 1915 and the mid-1920s, in what historians call the "Second Klan," reached all 48 states, with membership over four million in the mid-1920s. Although the Klan's core belief in white supremacy, at least with regard to African Americans, had less resonance in Washington State, by 1921 there was a ready audience…
ID Number:2000.107.108.16.01
Date:Circa 1923
Photograph
Klansmen at event at Crystal Pool, Seattle, March 23, 1923
A resurgence of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) movement between 1915 and the mid-1920s, in what historians call the "Second Klan," reached all 48 states, with membership over four million in the mid-1920s. Although the Klan's core belief in white supremacy, at least with regard to African Americans, had less resonance in Washington State, by 1921 there was a ready audience…
ID Number:2000.107.108.16.03
Date:1923
Photograph
Klansmen at event at Crystal Pool, Seattle, March 23, 1923
A resurgence of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) movement between 1915 and the mid-1920s, in what historians call the "Second Klan," reached all 48 states, with membership over four million in the mid-1920s. Although the Klan's core belief in white supremacy, at least with regard to African Americans, had less resonance in Washington State, by 1921 there was a ready audience…
ID Number:2000.107.108.16.04
Date:1923
Photograph
Klansmen at initiation ceremony at Wilson Station, Renton, July 14, 1923
A resurgence of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) movement between 1915 and the mid-1920s, in what historians call the "Second Klan," reached all 48 states, with membership over four million in the mid-1920s. Although the Klan's core belief in white supremacy, at least with regard to African Americans, had less resonance in Washington State, by 1921 there was a ready audience…
ID Number:2000.107.108.16.05
Date:1923
Photograph
Klansmen at initiation ceremony at Wilson Station, Renton, July 14, 1923
A resurgence of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) movement between 1915 and the mid-1920s, in what historians call the "Second Klan," reached all 48 states, with membership over four million in the mid-1920s. Although the Klan's core belief in white supremacy, at least with regard to African Americans, had less resonance in Washington State, by 1921 there was a ready audience…
ID Number:2000.107.108.16.06
Date:1923