3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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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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Marya Moses in her fishing boat, July 5, 1962
Marya D. Moses (1911-2006) was a pioneering commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County. Marya (pronounced "Mariah") Jones was born on the Tulalip Reservation to Snohomish Indian parents William Jones and Nancy Boomhouse Jones. Her grandparents spoke the Chinook Jargon, and Moses grew up speaking the ancient Coast Salish language, Lushootseed. In 1928 she married Walter…
ID Number:1986.5.36634.2
Date:1962
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Marya Moses on beach, July 5, 1962
Marya D. Moses (1911-2006) was a pioneering commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County. Marya (pronounced "Mariah") Jones was born on the Tulalip Reservation to Snohomish Indian parents William Jones and Nancy Boomhouse Jones. Her grandparents spoke the Chinook Jargon, and Moses grew up speaking the ancient Coast Salish language, Lushootseed. In 1928 she married Walter…
ID Number:1986.5.36634.3
Date:1962
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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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Elvis Presley on the monorail during the World's Fair, Seattle, September 1962
Elvis Presley visited Seattle to make his 11th motion picture, "It Happened at the World's Fair." Colonel Tom Parker accompanied him along with a staff of nine young men in black jump suits. Here, Elvis sits next to his costar on the monorail, as passengers on the monorail platform gape. Elvis Presley also known as Elvis Aron Presley and as…
ID Number:1986.5.39457.1
Date:1962