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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
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.002
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup near UW Astronomy building, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.003
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.004
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.005
Date:2003
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MEChA rally poster, May 1977
The activist Chicano student organization MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan) was founded in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969, and was active at high schools and colleges for 50 years. MEChA worked to promote Chicanx culture, advocated for Chicano Studies programs, faculty, and staff, and fought for social justice. In 2019, MEChA student leaders voted to drop the words "Chicano"…
ID Number:2002.23.1.43.2
Date:1977
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First issue of "Cascadia Rising" newsletter, 1982
This is the first issue of “Cascadia Rising,” a newsletter published by the Cascadia Commonwealth Movement (CCM). Cascadia is a region covering western Washington, western Oregon, and parts of northern California and southern British Columbia, and the CCM’s goal was to work for a prosperous, ecologically friendly, and equitable Cascadia. The newsletter also contains more specific demands, including economic independence…
ID Number:2002.23.1.74.1
Date:1982