135 results for: Seattle Public Schools
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Seattle youth eager to pick raspberries, Seattle, August 12, 1943
With farmers' pressing demand for pickers, the United States Employment Service and the Council of Social Agencies supplied youthful pickers for the Victory Youth Farm Aid Corps. Some 400 twelve to sixteen-year-old pickers turned up at 7th Avenue and Madison Street to board a truck headed for Puyallup berry farms. The program called for two adult volunteer supervisors for each…
ID Number:1986.5.6546.3
Date:1943
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Aaron Dixon and Trolice Flavors at court hearing for Franklin High School sit-in, Seattle, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11579.11
Date:1968
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants leaving prison, Seattle, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11580.6
Date:1968
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Aaron Dixon with his mother at courthouse, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11580.13
Date:1968
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Rev. Ralph Mero and students at Mount Zion Freedom School, Seattle, March 31, 1966
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in Seattle Public Schools. After years of frustration with city officials, a coalition of organizations led by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a boycott, requesting that all Seattle…
ID Number:1986.5.11603.8
Date:1966
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Ruth Geissmar and students at TT Minor Elementary School, Seattle, March 31, 1966
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in Seattle Public Schools. After years of frustration with city officials, a coalition of organizations led by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a boycott, requesting that all Seattle…
ID Number:1986.5.11603.12
Date:1966
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Joe Boyd and E.J. Brisker of the Soul Academy, August 28, 1969
In 1969, four men--E.J. Brisker, Larry Gossett, Joe Boyd and Richard Brown --founded the Soul Academy, A SEEK (Summer Emphasis on Education) joint program of Seattle Public Schools and the Model City program. The program was aimed at teaching Black dropouts in the Central District, with the intention of getting the students back into school. In addition to regular classes…
ID Number:1986.5.51096.2
Date:1969
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Glen Alps & Edwin Essex with model for City Hall fountain, Seattle, September 1961
Glen Alps (1914-1996) was an artist and art professor. He was born in Colorado and moved to Seattle to attend graduate school at the University of Washington (UW), graduating in 1947. He began teaching at UW while a student, became a full professor in 1962, and stayed at UW until his retirement in 1984. Alps’ primary artistic medium was printmaking,…
ID Number:2000.107.006.31.01
Date:1961
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Roberta Byrd Barr, 1966
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Byrd Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.014.25.01
Date:1966
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Roberta Byrd Barr and her son Robert, May 4, 1967
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then as librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.014.25.03
Date:1967