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Defendants in City Council demonstration case, August 14, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5928.1
Date:1963
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Defendants in City Council demonstration case at police court, July 26, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5928.2
Date:1963
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CORE demonstrators outside Picture Floor Plans, Bothell, March 22, 1964
In March 1964, the Seattle Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) held peaceful demonstrations against Seattle real estate firms in efforts to get the firms to agree to show homes without regard to race, and to include a statement to that effect in their advertising. On March 22, CORE picketed both the Greenlake and Bothell locations of the Picture Floor Plans…
ID Number:1986.5.5936.16
Date:1964
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Teenage girls at Central District Youth Employment Program orientation, August 17, 1964
This photo shows Louise Thompson, far right, talking to a group of black teenage girls hoping to find jobs through the Central District Youth Employment Program, run by the General Coordinating Council, Inc. The session took place in the office of Seattle attorney Archie M. Greenlee, who donated the space. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and…
ID Number:1986.5.5937.3
Date:1964
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Civil rights march, Seattle, 1965
Protestors' signs: [Equality] Now! We Protest Injustice NAACP. Discrimination Hurts Seattle. We Shall Overcome. Let My People Vote NAACP.Handwritten on sleeve: NEGROES, Seattle, Freedom marchers at Federal Courthouse.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 21, 1965.
ID Number:1986.5.5939.1
Date:1965
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Civil-rights marchers on Madison Street, Seattle, March 20, 1965
On March 20, 1965, over 600 people marched from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church on 14th Avenue to a rally at the United States Courthouse in support of equal rights for Blacks, and in solidarity with civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. Rev. John Adams, pastor of the church, told the rally that "the problem of segregation and injustice…
ID Number:1986.5.5939.14
Date:1965
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Civil rights marchers in front of Olympic Hotel, Seattle, 1964
Proponents of an open housing ordinance demonstrate in front of the world-class Olympic Hotel at 411 University Street. Despite efforts to end racial discrimination in home sales and rentals, on March 10, 1964, Seattle voters rejected the ordinance 112,448 to 53,453. The ordinance, drafted by Seattle's Human Rights Commission, would have made housing discrimination a misdemeanor. Opponents, mostly in the…
ID Number:1986.5.5952.1
Date:1964
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Protestors at Atlas Grocery, Seattle, January 1947
In January 1947, the Seattle Council of the National Negro Congress supported a picket in front of Atlas Grocery and St. George Apartments at 14th Ave and Yesler Way. The protest was against racial discrimination, saying that the owners Jee Wong and Allen Pang would not rent to or hire Black people. A newspaper article on January 23, 1947 in…
ID Number:1986.5.6310.1
Date:1947
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Pastor McKinney breaking ground for church addition, Seattle, April 28, 1962
Founded in 1890, Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle is home to the oldest and largest African American congregation in the state of Washington. In this image a crowd looks on as Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney (1926-) turns the first shovelful of earth during the groundbreaking ceremony for a $250,000 addition to the church building at 1634 19th Avenue,…
ID Number:1986.5.8041.1
Date:1962
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Jessie Shields breaking ground for church addition, Seattle, April 28, 1962
Founded in 1890, Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle is home to the oldest and largest African American congregation in the state of Washington. In this image a crowd looks on as Mrs. Jessie L. Shields, building committee chairperson, accompanied by Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney (1926-), breaks ground during the groundbreaking ceremony for a $250,000 addition to the church…
ID Number:1986.5.8041.2
Date:1962