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Supporters for clemency for Don White holding picket signs, Olympia, March 23, 1964
Don Anthony White, a Black man convicted of murdering two people in Seattle in 1959, was sentenced to death on July 18, 1960, by the King County Superior Court. A series of demonstrations supporting clemency for Mr. White led to a retrial in 1966 where he was again found guilty as charged and was sentenced to serve two concurrent terms…
ID Number:2000.107.141.13.02
Date:1964
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Supporters of school integration picketing outside Seattle Public School offices, Seattle, May 12, 1965
Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, various civil rights groups in Seattle unsuccessfully tried to persuade a predominately white school board to address the issues of desegregation of the Seattle Public Schools. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) felt that most of the educational deficiencies among the bulk…
ID Number:2000.107.141.13.03
Date:1965
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Picketers protesting discriminatory loan practices at Liberty Bank, Seattle, February 15, 1972
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:2000.107.141.14.01
Date:1972
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Union supporters picketing at Marie's Cafe in Greenwood, Seattle, August 26, 1974
Marie's Cafe was founded in the early 1940s in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. A successful restaurant for several decades, retail sale of salad dressings developed in the cafe eventually took over the business. Today, Marie's Salad Dressing is a nationally-distributed brand owned by Dean Foods Co.In this image picketers outside Marie's Cafe at Northwest 85th and Greenwood demonstrate support of cafe…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.02
Date:1974
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ILWU members holding strike signs at Pier 20, Seattle, January 17, 1972
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU) 1971 strike began on July 1, when ILWU members walked out against their employers, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). The union's goal was to secure employment, wages, and benefits in the face of increased mechanization, shrinking workforce, and the slowing economic climate of the early 1970s. The strike shut down all 56 West…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.03
Date:1972
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Teamsters striking King County Humane Society, Seattle, March 29, 1972
In March 1972, Teamsters Local 174 in Seattle walked out of work at the King County Humane Society, where they had been without a contract since the previous April. The Teamsters also filed an unfair-labor-practice charge against the Humane Society, contending that the non-profit had refused to bargain for a new contract. Waldo J. Dahl, president of the Humane Society,…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.04
Date:1972
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Women speaking with Ben Paris billiards room attendant, Seattle, April 3, 1963
In April 1963, two women who worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went out with a reporter and photographer to test a law recently passed in Washington state. The law stated that, "Woman may pursue any calling open to men," and "May not be excluded from any premises...on account of sex." Though the pair were rebuffed when they tried to apply…
ID Number:2000.107.141.23.01
Date:1963
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Footong Tsoy Saelee and Choi Saechao selling produce at Pike Place Market, Seattle, July 21, 1982
The Indochinese Farm Project began in 1982 with 18 acres of land along the Sammamish River. Funded in part by King County and the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (Market PDA), the Indochinese Farm project was a joint project of the Washington State Commission on Asian American Affairs and Bethany Presbyterian church. Through the project, refugees from Laos,…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.02
Date:1982
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Police running to demonstration at Summit Branch of Seattle Community College, May 23, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.02
Date:1969
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Demonstrators at 19th Avenue S. and S. Washington Street, Seattle, May 26, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.03
Date:1969