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Charles Mitchell after being named Chancellor of the Seattle Community Colleges District, December 10, 2002
Charles Mitchell became Chancellor of the Seattle Community Colleges District in 2003, after serving as president of Seattle Central Community College since 1987. During his term as president, the college was acknowledged in a Time Magazine “College of the Year” Award in 2001. Dr. Mitchell grew up in Seattle, graduating from Garfield High School and the University of Washington, and…
ID Number:2000.107.20021210.CD01.02.002
Date:2002
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Souleymane N'Diaye playing drum during Adefua performance, Seattle, December 2002
Adefua is a cultural education organization and dance troupe founded in 1985 by Afua Kouyate, commonly known as Mama Afua. Mama Afua, a Seattle native, started Adefua to teach people about African cultures and African dance. Currently (as of 2024), Adefua’s programs include “African Arts for All to See,” an educational program that travels to schools, the Youth and Family…
ID Number:2000.107.20021214.CD01.001
Date:2002
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Adefua music and dance performance, Seattle, December 2002
Adefua is a cultural education organization and dance troupe founded in 1985 by Afua Kouyate, commonly known as Mama Afua. Mama Afua, a Seattle native, started Adefua to teach people about African cultures and African dance. Currently (as of 2024), Adefua’s programs include “African Arts for All to See,” an educational program that travels to schools, the Youth and Family…
ID Number:2000.107.20021214.CD01.002
Date:2002
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Souleymane N'Diaye and others drumming and dancing at Adefua performance, Seattle, December 2002
Adefua is a cultural education organization and dance troupe founded in 1985 by Afua Kouyate, commonly known as Mama Afua. Mama Afua, a Seattle native, started Adefua to teach people about African cultures and African dance. Currently (as of 2024), Adefua’s programs include “African Arts for All to See,” an educational program that travels to schools, the Youth and Family…
ID Number:2000.107.20021214.CD01.003
Date:2002
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Tap dance students practicing at TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003
Darrlyn (Cook) Smith (1938-2002) and her husband Joseph Smith, both educators, relocated to Seattle from New Orleans in the early 1960s. In Seattle, Darrlyn Smith taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, where she kept a box of tap dance shoes in her classroom and taught tap to interested students during recess. Darrlyn and Joseph Smith later owned the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030114.CD07.001
Date:2003
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Tap dance students practicing at TTAAPP Central studio, Seattle, January 2003
Darrlyn (Cook) Smith (1938-2002) and her husband Joseph Smith, both educators, relocated to Seattle from New Orleans in the early 1960s. In Seattle, Darrlyn Smith taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, where she kept a box of tap dance shoes in her classroom and taught tap to interested students during recess. Darrlyn and Joseph Smith later owned the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030114.CD07.002
Date:2003
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Tap dance students practicing at TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003
Darrlyn (Cook) Smith (1938-2002) and her husband Joseph Smith, both educators, relocated to Seattle from New Orleans in the early 1960s. In Seattle, Darrlyn Smith taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, where she kept a box of tap dance shoes in her classroom and taught tap to interested students during recess. Darrlyn and Joseph Smith later owned the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030114.CD07.003
Date:2003
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Tap dance students in front of mirror TTAAPP Central, Seattle, January 2003
Darrlyn (Cook) Smith (1938-2002) and her husband Joseph Smith, both educators, relocated to Seattle from New Orleans in the early 1960s. In Seattle, Darrlyn Smith taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, where she kept a box of tap dance shoes in her classroom and taught tap to interested students during recess. Darrlyn and Joseph Smith later owned the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030114.CD07.004
Date:2003
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People participating in a citizenship class at El Centro de la Raza, Seattle, January 21, 2003
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 3-month…
ID Number:2000.107.20030123.CD06.001
Date:2003
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People participating in a citizenship class at El Centro de la Raza, Seattle, January 21, 2003
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 3-month…
ID Number:2000.107.20030123.CD06.002
Date:2003