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Akia Kuniyuki, Philip Hayasaka, and Ruth Chinn at Jackson Street Community Council office, Seattle, 1960
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Seattle’s public-school system was growing. Proposition 22, a $5.5 million funding levy, appeared on the November ballot in 1960. While some of the money was for normal operations and maintenance, the Seattle School Board pointed to the system’s needs to cover additional pupils, rising supply costs, teacher salary increases and staffing of new…
ID Number:1986.5.32067.1
Date:1960
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United Black Front president Dave Mills, Seattle, July 1969
Throughout 1969, Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central Community College) faced a series of boycotts, demonstrations, and riots, with students demanding a Black studies program and the hiring of Black administrators and faculty. To address protests over the lack of African American representation on the board, in July 1969 Governor Dan Evans appointed Marvin Glass, a Pacific Northwest Bell engineer…
ID Number:1986.5.36019.1
Date:1969
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Suzie Ordogh reading with her guardian family, Seattle, September 17, 1959
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37959.1
Date:1959
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Suzie Ordogh and John Boyd reading her order of parole, Seattle, December 26, 1956
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37960.1
Date:1956
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Suzie Ordogh completing Alien Address report with John Boyd, Seattle, January 4, 1962
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37961.1
Date:1962
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Suzie Ordogh and John Boyd with her permanent residency papers, Seattle, December 24, 1958
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37962.1
Date:1958
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Suzie Ordogh signing naturalization papers inside courthouse, Seattle, April 23, 1962
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37963.1
Date:1962
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Suzie Ordogh socializing after naturalization ceremony at courthouse, Seattle, April 23, 1962
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37964.1
Date:1962
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Nancy Ramey with family on her return from the Olympics, Seattle, December 14, 1956
In 1956 Nancy Jane Ramey, a 16-year-old swimmer who grew up in the Mercer Island neighborhood of Seattle, competed in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly event. In this image, her family greets Nancy (center) upon her return from Melbourne. Ramey continued to earn medals in the following years, and…
ID Number:1986.5.39848.1
Date:1956
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Nancy Ramey with Seafair King and Queen on her return from the Olympics, Seattle, December 14, 1956
In 1956 Nancy Jane Ramey, a 16-year-old swimmer who grew up in the Mercer Island neighborhood of Seattle, competed in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly event. In this image Ramey (center) is welcomed back to Seattle from Melbourne by the Seafair Queen and King Neptune, representatives of the annual…
ID Number:1986.5.39848.2
Date:1956