770 results for: Activism
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Jeff Dowd and others at Mayor's office, July 8, 1970
The short-lived Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) was organized by University of professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, after the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969 left a leadership void among student-based antiwar and radical organizations. In February 1970, the group sponsored a protest that became violent at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. Conspiracy charges were…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.06
Date:1970
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Samuel Spivey at the Bread of Life Mission, Seattle, February 6, 1983
Since 1939, the Bread of Life Mission, located in Seattle's Pioneer Square, has served those needing food and shelter. Here, Samuel Spivey, 55, who regularly eats his meals at the mission, tells his story to a P-I reporter. Caption information source: Breadoflifemission.org.Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.177.02.01
Date:1983
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Supporters of the Turf Grill and Smoke Shop gathering for protest, Seattle, November 28, 1984
The Turf Grill and Smoke Shop opened in Seattle in the 1920s at 1407 Third Avenue. In addition to food, it sold beer and wine, cigars and cigarettes, and also had a barber shop. The Turf moved to Second and Pike in 1984 when 3rd Avenue was closed for the building of the Bus Tunnel (now the Transit Tunnel). In…
ID Number:2000.107.185.26.02
Date:1984
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Student Eddie Releford in Cleveland High School's radio/television studio, Seattle, November 25, 1979
In the late 1970s, community and Seattle School District planners worked on a 1990 building plan to be adopted the following year. Faced with shrinking enrollments and the need to desegregate, they recommended that a number of schools, including Cleveland High School, on Seattle’s Beacon Hill, be shut down and teachers and students be moved to other schools. Cleveland students…
ID Number:2000.107.186.14.01
Date:1979
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David Sohappy at Geiger Corrections Center, Spokane, November 22, 1987
David Sohappy (1925-1991) was a Wanapum fisher and activist for Indigenous fishing rights. In the mid-1960s, Sohappy and his family moved to Cook’s Landing in Skamania County at the mouth of the Little White Salmon River. There, Sohappy became a fisher full-time and took only as many fish as needed for his community, in line with traditional Wanapum beliefs and…
ID Number:2000.107.202.10.01
Date:1987
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Andy Sohappy protesting at the Federal Building, Seattle, November 24, 1987
Andy Sohappy is the son of David Sohappy (1925-1991), a Wanapum fisher and activist for Indigenous fishing rights. In the mid-1960s, David Sohappy and his family moved to Cook’s Landing in Skamania County at the mouth of the Little White Salmon River. There, Sohappy became a fisher full-time and took only as many fish as needed for his community, in…
ID Number:2000.107.202.10.02
Date:1987
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Myra and David Sohappy outside Yakama Tribal Court, June 13, 1990
David Sohappy (1925-1991) was a Wanapum fisher and activist for Indigenous fishing rights. In the mid-1960s, Sohappy and his family moved to Cook’s Landing in Skamania County at the mouth of the Little White Salmon River. There, he became a fisher full-time and took only as many fish as needed for his community, in line with traditional Wanapum beliefs and…
ID Number:2000.107.202.10.03
Date:1990
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Helen Beck Stafford, June 30, 1987
Helen Beck Stafford (1899-2002) was a community and civil rights activist in Tacoma. Stafford attended Kansas State University, where she was not allowed live in the dorms, swim in the campus pool, or use other facilities required by her course work because she was Black. Despite a college experience rife with discrimination and racial insults, she excelled and graduated in…
ID Number:2000.107.204.01.01
Date:1987
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Victor Steinbrueck at press conference about saving Pike Place Market, Seattle, March 5, 1969
In 1964 the Seattle city government, in cooperation with a consortium of downtown business leaders, proposed the redevelopment and “urban renewal” of Pike Place Market. However, many Seattle residents feared that redevelopment would destroy not only the historic buildings but also the atmosphere of the market. They banded together and founded the Friends of the Market to oppose redevelopment plans.…
ID Number:2000.107.205.03.01
Date:1969
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Grace Thorpe making sign for protest at courthouse, Seattle, March 16, 1970
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.212.01.01
Date:1970