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Stop the Violence members putting guns into a foundry crucible, Seattle, June 16, 1993
In the fall of 1992, Stop the Violence, a non-profit community group dedicated to reducing handgun violence, collected guns in a buy-back program that paid $50 for each weapon turned in. The organization raised more than $93,000 and bought 1,782 handguns from people who brought them to collection points at Seattle police stations. On June 16, 1993, some 900 of…
ID Number:2000.107.19930616.2.17
Date:1993
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Man unloading guns into foundry crucible, Seattle, June 16, 1993
In the fall of 1992, Stop the Violence, a non-profit community group dedicated to reducing handgun violence, collected guns in a buy-back program that paid $50 for each weapon turned in. The organization raised more than $93,000 and bought 1,782 handguns from people who brought them to collection points at Seattle police stations. On June 16, 1993, some 900 of…
ID Number:2000.107.19930616.2.21
Date:1993
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Men dumping box of guns into foundry crucible, Seattle, June 16, 1993
In the fall of 1992, Stop the Violence, a non-profit community group dedicated to reducing handgun violence, collected guns in a buy-back program that paid $50 for each weapon turned in. The organization raised more than $93,000 and bought 1,782 handguns from people who brought them to collection points at Seattle police stations. On June 16, 1993, some 900 of…
ID Number:2000.107.19930616.3.02
Date:1993
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Woman dumping guns into foundry crucible, Seattle, June 16, 1993
In the fall of 1992, Stop the Violence, a non-profit community group dedicated to reducing handgun violence, collected guns in a buy-back program that paid $50 for each weapon turned in. The organization raised more than $93,000 and bought 1,782 handguns from people who brought them to collection points at Seattle police stations. On June 16, 1993, some 900 of…
ID Number:2000.107.19930616.3.29
Date:1993
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Marchers in Pride parade on Capitol Hill, Seattle, June 27, 1993
The first Pride Week was celebrated by Seattle's gay and lesbian community in June 1974. Now called Seattle Pride, this series of events is held annually in late June to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Seattle.This photo of the 1993 Pride parade shows a group of women, some wearing t-shirts printed with "I'm not a BOY," carrying a banner reading "Women…
ID Number:2000.107.19930627.4.05
Date:1993
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Hands Off Washington demonstration, July 15, 1993
In 1993, the conservative activist organization Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) attempted to influence Washington state politics by gathering signatures for ballot initiatives that would have restricted the civil rights of LGLBTQ citizens in Washington. The Washington Citizens for Fairness/Hands Off Washington (HOW) campaign was a grassroots gay rights effort organized in 1993 to defeat this attempt, casting the OCA as…
ID Number:2000.107.19930715.1.25
Date:1993
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Re'Gena Bell filing paperwork as City Council candidate, Seattle, July 26, 1993
Re’Gena Bell (now Re’Gena Bell-Roberts) grew up in Pasco, Washington, and attended the University of Washington, majoring in drama. As a student, she performed in productions with Black Arts West, and her original play “Eclipse” was produced by Black Arts West in April 1975. The play won Bell a Rockefeller playwright-in-residence grant. Bell was a junior at UW when she…
ID Number:2000.107.19930726.1.27
Date:1993
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Re'Gena Bell in line to file as City Council candidate, Seattle, July 26, 1993
Re’Gena Bell (now Re’Gena Bell-Roberts) grew up in Pasco, Washington, and attended the University of Washington, majoring in drama. As a student, she performed in productions with Black Arts West, and her original play “Eclipse” was produced by Black Arts West in April 1975. The play won Bell a Rockefeller playwright-in-residence grant. Bell was a junior at UW when she…
ID Number:2000.107.19930726.1.32
Date:1993
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Guy Kurose speaking to Trisha and Monique Hendrix, Seattle, August 1993
Guy Kurose (1952-2002) was an activist and youth counselor who focused on street gangs and preventing violence. He was the son of Seattle teacher and peace activist Aki Kurose and he began attending antiwar and civil rights protests as a child with his family. Kurose joined the Black Panther Party as a teenager, becoming one of the group’s few Asian-American…
ID Number:2000.107.19930818.1.12
Date:1993
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Puni Hokea during campaign for City Council seat, August 1993
Puni Hokea (1953-2011) was a longtime community leader in Seattle. His full name was ’O Kana‘iaupuni Iwi'ula, and he was a Native Hawaiian spiritual leader and healer. In 1993 he founded the Kalama Foundation, which educated people about Native Hawaiian culture and medicine. Hokea worked as a health administrator at the Washington Department of Health, the Seattle Indian Health Board,…
ID Number:2000.107.19930823.3.12
Date:1993