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Police removing demonstrator from City Hall, July 25, 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:1986.5.5925.2
Date:1963
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Police removing demonstrator from City Hall, July 25, 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:1986.5.5925.3
Date:1963
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Four women at City Council sit-in, Seattle, July 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:1986.5.5927.1
Date:1963
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Eddie Givens addressing demonstrators at City Hall sit-in, July 25, 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:1986.5.5927.2
Date:1963
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Sit-in at City Council Chambers, City Hall, Seattle, July 25, 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:1986.5.5927.10
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 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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Cars packed with belongings during forced removal of Japanese Americans, Bainbridge Island, March 1942
In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army to assembly centers while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named "Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds in Puyallup and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska. Buses…
ID Number:1986.5.6680.3
Date:1942