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Western Governors Conference demonstration, July 31, 1969
In July 1969, a group of Seattle Community College students protested outside the Washington Plaza Hotel, where the Western Governors' Conference was in session. The students, most members of the Black Student Union (BLU) or the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), objected to the appointment by Governor Dan Evans of Marvin Glass to the Board of Trustees of the…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.02
Date:1969
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Two girls crossing street near Madrona School, Seattle, September 1957
On September 4, 1957, Little Rock Central High School became the focus of national attention when the governor of Arkansas deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering the school, in direct opposition to court-ordered integration. Three weeks later President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard to enforce integration of the school. The Guard remained at Central…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.03
Date:1957
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Garfield students performing "Walking Stereotypes" in C.A.M.P. class, July 11, 1967
Seattle's Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP), co-sponsored by the Central Area Community Council and the Seattle Urban League, was founded in 1967, funded as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty program. Its mission has been to reduce the impact of poverty with all of its related problems. Renamed Centerstone in 2012, the organization has assisted, through many programs and…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.06
Date:1967
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Keve Bray at panel discussion at Seattle University, December 3, 1967
Seattle actor, businessman, and political activist Keve Bray (1925-1972) played an essential role in the local civil rights movement and is especially notable for his role in the Black power movement in the Central District. As early as 1964, he spoke out against the integrationist stance of many civil rights leaders, and by 1968, Bray had become a leader of…
ID Number:2000.107.131.24.01
Date:1967
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William H. (Bill) Neukom, Seattle, August 1980
Born in Chicago and raised in San Mateo Park, CA, Bill Neukom led an active life in law, higher education, philanthropy, and baseball. After graduating from Dartmouth and Stanford Law School, Neukom moved to Seattle, serving as a law clerk in the King County Superior Court before starting private practice. Through the American Bar Association, he met Bill Gates, Sr.,…
ID Number:2000.107.132.04.01
Date:1980
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House at center of debate in Open Housing Campaign, Seattle, May 2, 1959
Seattle's African American population increased dramatically between 1940 and 1960, making the community the city's largest minority group. Like other minorities, African Americans experienced discrimination in many ways, including in housing. The enforcement of restrictive covenants in specific developments or subdivisions, realtors agreeing not to show houses to people of color, and red-lining, where banks denied credit to minorities, largely…
ID Number:2000.107.136.07.02
Date:1959
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Gary Padilla, May 7, 1975
On May 6, 1975 the University of Washington fired Gary Padilla, director of the Chicano Studies program, and Juan Sanchez, director of the Chicano division of the Office of Minority Affairs. Rosa Morales, a secretary in Padilla’s office, was also suspended for 15 days. The employees were accused of “insubordination” and making threats against the university during a meeting in…
ID Number:2000.107.137.19.01
Date:1975
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Won Ldy Paye with students at McGilvra Elementary School, February 19, 1988
Won-Ldy Paye is a storyteller, dancer, drummer, and artist from Tapita, Liberia. He was trained by his grandmother to remember and retell the stories of the Dan people of northeastern Liberia, and is a member of the Tlo Ker Mehn, the class of professional Dan entertainers who are keepers of the oral tradition. Paye immigrated to the US in 1990…
ID Number:2000.107.139.04.01
Date:1988
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Won Ldy Paye teaching African music to fourth grade students, Seattle, February 19, 1988
Won-Ldy Paye is a storyteller, dancer, drummer, and artist from Tapita, Liberia. He was trained by his grandmother to remember and retell the stories of the Dan people of northeastern Liberia, and is a member of the Tlo Ker Mehn, the class of professional Dan entertainers who are keepers of the oral tradition. Paye immigrated to the US in 1990…
ID Number:2000.107.139.04.02
Date:1988
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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