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View of McNeil Island Penitentiary, March 3, 1971
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.03
Date:1971
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Toni McWashington, October 18, 1991
In 1991, Seattle Police Department (SPD) Lieutenant Toni McWashington, who had developed the department's racial and cultural sensitivity training program, was placed in command of the Internal Investigation Section. The job change came with a promotion in rank, to police captain, making McWashington the highest-ranking minority police officer in Washington state, and the second-highest-ranking woman in the SPD. McWashington, who…
ID Number:2000.107.123.26.01
Date:1991
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Rosa Melendez at SPD East precinct, December 2, 1992
Rosa M. Melendez worked in law-enforcement for 25 years, including 17 years with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) (1976-1994), where she worked in the Patrol Division, Personnel Division, Internal Investigations Unit, Community Service Section and on the U.S. Department of Justice's Weed and Seed grant-funded program. She was the first woman of color on the Seattle Police Department to be…
ID Number:2000.107.124.03.01
Date:1992
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Rosa Melendez at SPD East precinct, December 2, 1992
Rosa M. Melendez worked in law-enforcement for 25 years, including 17 years with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) (1976-1994), where she worked in the Patrol Division, Personnel Division, Internal Investigations Unit, Community Service Section and on the U.S. Department of Justice's Weed and Seed grant-funded program. She was the first woman of color on the Seattle Police Department to be…
ID Number:2000.107.124.03.02
Date:1992
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Protesters taking over City Council meeting, November 10, 1972
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 75-day…
ID Number:2000.107.124.39.07
Date:1972
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Sit-in at Mayor's office, April 5, 1973
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 75-day…
ID Number:2000.107.124.39.09
Date:1973
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Chicano demonstration at Seattle Central Community College, October 12, 1976
On October 12, 1976, a group of Chicano students at Seattle Central Community College protested the college's failure to provide bilingual programs or counseling, citing that as the cause for the drop in Chicano enrollment. The students demanded the hiring of a full-time bilingual Chicano counselor, more Chicano administrators, faculty and staff, and a recruitment program to attract more Chicano…
ID Number:2000.107.124.39.12
Date:1976
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Keo Capastany and Robert Gogerty at Mayor's office sit-in, April 5, 1973
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 75-day…
ID Number:2000.107.124.39.13
Date:1973
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Leroy Mills carrying two children at protest, Seattle, October 14, 1975
On October 14, 1975, about 150 Native American protesters and sympathizers held a demonstation at the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle. Originally publicized as a protest against the Columbus Day holiday, the demonstration became a call for the closure of all Bureau of Indian Affairs federal offices across the country. Protesters argued that the agency had refused to respond to treaty…
ID Number:2000.107.126.03.01
Date:1975
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Sit-in at Mayor Gordon Clinton's office, Seattle, July 1963
On July 1, 1963, after a demonstration of about 400 people on the City Hall plaza, 35 individuals from the Central District Youth Club began a sit-in at Mayor Gordon Clinton's office to protest Clinton's lack of action on an open housing ordinance. This photo shows some of the group of young women and men in the reception area of…
ID Number:2000.107.131.21.15
Date:1963