869 results for: P.A.W.S.
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Kichisaburo Ishimitsu and friends at redress ceremony, Seattle, October 14, 1990
The Japanese American Redress Movement refers to the efforts, from the 1940s through the 1990s, to obtain the restitution of civil rights, monetary compensation, and an apology from the U.S. government for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Japanese Americans protested their mass incarceration with defiance and protests while living at the camps, and…
ID Number:2000.107.098.20.02
Date:1990
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Officers of Citizens Advisory Council for Model Cities posing together, Seattle, January 13, 1969
In response to urban problems of poverty and race in the United States, in November 1966 Congress initiated the Model Cities Program. The program's objectives were to reduce social and economic disadvantages in designated neighborhoods, provide training and employment opportunities, and establish health services for residents. Financial and technical assistance was made available to cities through the Department of Housing…
ID Number:2000.107.099.31.05
Date:1969
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Rex Jones teaching management trainees, Seattle, August 16, 1967
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see") was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:2000.107.101.12.01
Date:1967
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Marjorie Jones posing for portrait, Seattle, May 28, 1969
Marjorie (Macklen) Jones (1892-1987) was a prominent social services activist in Seattle, and was married to Robert M. Jones (1882-1954), a long-time King County Superior Court judge. Ms. Jones was named to the state's first committee on aging in the 1930s, established the statewide Friendly Visiting Service to help the elderly, and organized day care for women who went to…
ID Number:2000.107.101.12.02
Date:1969
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Marjorie Jones and Helen Dorman planning for UW garden party, Seattle, July 18, 1941
Marjorie (Macklen) Jones (1892-1987) was a prominent social services activist in Seattle, and was married to Robert M. Jones (1882-1954), a long-time King County Superior Court judge. Ms. Jones was named to the state's first committee on aging in the 1930s, established the statewide Friendly Visiting Service to help the elderly, and organized day care for women who went to…
ID Number:2000.107.101.12.03
Date:1941
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James Kelly speaking at press conference at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, December 5, 1988
James Kelly came to Seattle from his native Illinois in 1976, and received a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Washington in 1980. Kelly worked as an investigator for Washington State Child Protective Services, and in the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, before being appointed by Governor Booth Gardner to head the newly created Commission on African-American Affairs…
ID Number:2000.107.103.19.01
Date:1988
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Elaine Ko speaking at press conference, Seattle, August 5, 1982
Elaine Ko (b. 1954) is a community activist in Seattle who has worked for decades on behalf of the Asian and Pacific Islander community, immigrants, refugees, women, and victims of domestic violence in the Puget Sound area. In 2006, Ko succeeded Bob Santos as Executive Director of the Inter*Im Community Development Association in Seattle's Chinatown - International District (previously the…
ID Number:2000.107.107.16.01
Date:1982
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Norleen Koponen, state director of N.O.W., Seattle, October 24, 1990
This photo shows Norleen Koponen, Washington state director of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) and executive director of the Seattle chapter, in her office the day before N.O.W. leaders celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Seattle chapter. Over those 20 years, the chapter had brought big changes to the rights of women, including giving married women the legal right…
ID Number:2000.107.107.28.01
Date:1990
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Young girl performing Crown Dance at Sand Point Community Church, Seattle, January 23, 1977
In late January 1977, Seattle's Sand Point Community Church celebrated Korea Day. Korean families entertained attendees with dances, a fashion show of traditional costumes, movies, and language lessons. Here, Young-Mi Song performs the Crown Dance. Sand Point Community Church, in northeast Seattle, was founded sometime around 1944. It is now known as Sand Point Community United Methodist Church. Caption information…
ID Number:2000.107.107.32.04
Date:1977
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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