513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Defendants in City Council demonstration case, August 14, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5928.1
Date:1963
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Defendants in City Council demonstration case at police court, July 26, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5928.2
Date:1963
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Vigil for missing Mississippi civil-rights workers at United States courthouse, Seattle, June 29, 1964
On June 29, 1964, about 300 people marched from the United States Courthouse to Westlake Mall to protest discrimination in Mississippi and call for increased protection for student volunteers conducting a voter registration drive there. The march ended a round-the-clock vigil at the courthouse for the three young civil rights workers who had disappeared in Mississippi on June 21, and…
ID Number:1986.5.5934.1
Date:1964
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Open housing demonstration at Westlake Mall, March 7, 1964
On March 7, 1964, supporters of the proposed open housing ordinance marched from four staging areas to converge on Westlake Mall for a rally to generate enthusiasm for the ordinance in the upcoming election. The open housing ordinance against racial discrimination in home sales and rentals was rejected by Seattle voters on March 10, 1964 by a margin of nearly…
ID Number:1986.5.5935.5
Date:1964
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CORE demonstrators outside Picture Floor Plans, Bothell, March 22, 1964
In March 1964, the Seattle Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) held peaceful demonstrations against Seattle real estate firms in efforts to get the firms to agree to show homes without regard to race, and to include a statement to that effect in their advertising. On March 22, CORE picketed both the Greenlake and Bothell locations of the Picture Floor Plans…
ID Number:1986.5.5936.16
Date:1964
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Civil rights march, Seattle, 1965
Protestors' signs: [Equality] Now! We Protest Injustice NAACP. Discrimination Hurts Seattle. We Shall Overcome. Let My People Vote NAACP.Handwritten on sleeve: NEGROES, Seattle, Freedom marchers at Federal Courthouse.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 21, 1965.
ID Number:1986.5.5939.1
Date:1965
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Civil-rights marchers on Madison Street, Seattle, March 20, 1965
On March 20, 1965, over 600 people marched from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church on 14th Avenue to a rally at the United States Courthouse in support of equal rights for Blacks, and in solidarity with civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. Rev. John Adams, pastor of the church, told the rally that "the problem of segregation and injustice…
ID Number:1986.5.5939.14
Date:1965
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Civil rights marchers in front of Olympic Hotel, Seattle, 1964
Proponents of an open housing ordinance demonstrate in front of the world-class Olympic Hotel at 411 University Street. Despite efforts to end racial discrimination in home sales and rentals, on March 10, 1964, Seattle voters rejected the ordinance 112,448 to 53,453. The ordinance, drafted by Seattle's Human Rights Commission, would have made housing discrimination a misdemeanor. Opponents, mostly in the…
ID Number:1986.5.5952.1
Date:1964
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Protestors at Atlas Grocery, Seattle, January 1947
In January 1947, the Seattle Council of the National Negro Congress supported a picket in front of Atlas Grocery and St. George Apartments at 14th Ave and Yesler Way. The protest was against racial discrimination, saying that the owners Jee Wong and Allen Pang would not rent to or hire Black people. A newspaper article on January 23, 1947 in…
ID Number:1986.5.6310.1
Date:1947
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Open housing demonstration at Garfield playfield, Seattle, October 20, 1963
In the mid-20th century, protesters began challenging long-established inequitable practices in housing. Racially restrictive housing covenants and discriminatory lending (“redlining”) excluded people of color from buying or renting housing in most of Seattle’s neighborhoods. In 1963, the Seattle Human Rights Commission drafted an open housing ordinance and presented it to the City Council for approval. The Council held public hearings…
ID Number:1986.5.9653.7
Date:1963