426 results for: Civil Rights
Videorecording
Human Rights: The Constitution and Public Access, Community Television Agency program, July 12, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.21
Date:1989
Scrapbook
"Martial Law," Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, February 10, 1886
Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.24.3
Date:1886
Ephemera
Seattle's International Settlement brochure, circa 1960
The Jackson Street Community Council (1946-1967) was established to represent both Seattle's Asian and African American communities in part of the Central District and the Chinatown - International District, supporting businesses, volunteer organizations, and social groups. The JSCC linked these two communities of color and later advocated for civil rights for both. This brochure, titled Seattle's International Settlement, gives an…
ID Number:Lib1991.30.19
Date:Circa 1960
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Rabbi Raphael Levine, 1977
Rabbi Raphael Levine (1901-1984) was rabbi of Temple de Hirsch from 1942 to 1969, and continued on as rabbis ermeritus until his death. Levine was was involved in interfaith efforts across the city, including founding an interfaith summer camp called Camp Brotherhood and a KOMO-TV panel of clergymen called "Challenge." Levine authored articles in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and supported civil…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.235
Date:1977
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Spanish-American War veterans in Memorial Day parade, Seattle, May 30, 1940
On May 30, 1940, Seattle area veterans of the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I held ceremonies of remembrance and marched in the Memorial Day parade. They gathered on Second Avenue at Virginia Street, moved down Second Avenue to Yesler Way and then marched back north on Fourth Avenue. National guard units, cadet corps, patriotic groups, Red…
ID Number:PI23376
Date:1940
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Madrona air raid wardens drilling with gas masks, August 1942
On August 2, 1942, Seattle staged a city-wide air raid drill to test its wartime emergency preparedness. Sirens wailed and army and navy planes roared low over the city as 58,000 civil defense workers handled traffic, dealt with imaginary fires, gave first aid and evacuated people from areas where bombs had supposedly landed. During the drill one theoretical bomb landed…
ID Number:PI27965
Date:1942
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Army guns at civil defense demonstration in Husky Stadium, Seattle, 1943
Handwritten on negative: U of W stadium civilian defense show.Handwritten on sleeve: U.S. Army - Seattle - show (U of W stadium).Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 20, 1943.
ID Number:PI27983
Date:1943
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Civil defense workers in first aid drill, March 1942
During World War II, Seattle-area communities set up volunteer civil defense groups to help in case they were attacked. Men, women and even children joined up to help with such things as fighting fires, running air raid shelters, driving ambulances, and caring for the injured. Each community held periodic drills to make sure that everything would run smoothly in an…
ID Number:PI27990
Date:1942
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Civil defense workers in first aid drill, Vashon Island, 1942
During World War II, Seattle-area communities set up volunteer civil defense groups to help in case they were attacked. Men, women and even children joined up to help with such things as fighting fires, running air raid shelters, driving ambulances, and caring for the injured. Each community held periodic drills to make sure that everything would run smoothly in an…
ID Number:PI27991
Date:1942
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Paul Billingsley at civil defense lookout, Vashon Island, 1942
During World War II, Seattle-area communities set up volunteer civil defense groups to help in case they were attacked. Men, women and even children joined up to help with such things as fighting fires, running air raid shelters, driving ambulances, and caring for the injured. Each community held periodic drills to make sure that everything would run smoothly in an…
ID Number:PI27993
Date:1942