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Anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting at South African consulate, Seattle, January 23, 1985
Beginning in October 1984, a series of demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Madison Park to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. Though the protest shown here was orderly and non-violent, police arrested 58 of the approximately 1,000 demonstrators on criminal trespass charges. Caption information source: The…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.02
Date:1985
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Protest outside the South African consulate, Seattle, December 8, 1984
When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s,…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.05
Date:1984
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Vedke Scott protesting proposed youth curfew, Seattle, July 31, 1986
In February 1986, the Washington State House of Representatives passed HB1498, which would make it illegal for youths 15 and younger to be on the street between midnight and 5 AM. Partly a reaction against all-night youth dance clubs, the bill failed to pass the Senate, and the controversial proposal, backed by Seattle City Attorney Doug Jewett and Mayor Charles…
ID Number:2000.107.047.34.01
Date:1986
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Low-income housing advocate protesting at McKay Apartments, Seattle, July 1, 1989
In this image Ben Factory leans out of a window at the McKay Apartments, on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Pike Street. A group known as "Operation Homestead" sponsored the occupation of the building, closed by the state in 1987, to protest the steady decline of low-income housing in downtown Seattle. An unidentified police officer stands on the street…
ID Number:2000.107.047.35.01
Date:1989
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Central Area NAACP protest, September 7, 1986
Attorney Ross Baker, right, shouts his support for efforts to stop drug trafficking and prostitution in Seattle's Central Area. Baker was one of about 250 people who marched to Judkins Park for a rally sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Caption information source: The Seattle Times, September 8, 1986, page B4Caption information also derived…
ID Number:2000.107.047.35.02
Date:1986
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Demonstrators protesting cutting of federal funds to refugees, Seattle, September 26, 1991
This image depicts Refugee Advocacy Action Coalition demonstrators in front of the Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle, protesting against the cutting of cash and medical assistance to refugees from 12 months to 8 months. They are joined by Van Dan, left, a refugee from Vietnam, who arrived in the U. S. just three months prior, and speaks very little…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.01
Date:1991
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Betty Shellman marching in support of health-care reform, Seattle, June 5, 1991
Betty Shellman, a member of the Puget Sound Council of Senior Citizens, joins more than 400 other protesters who convened at the office of King County Medical Blue Shield at 1800 Ninth Avenue as part of a nationwide health action week during which consumer and labor groups called attention to obstacles facing national health-care reform. Caption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.02
Date:1991
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Japanese lantern ceremony at Green Lake, Seattle, August 7, 1991
In this image, a volunteer from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility helps launch Japanese lanterns to commemorate the U. S. dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The event, held near the Bathhouse Theatre on Green Lake and called "From Hiroshima to Hope," attracted more than 1,000 people. It was patterned after…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.03
Date:1991
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Peace activists demonstrating outside Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, January 7, 1991
In this photo, Randy Rowland, a Vietnam veteran from Seattle, leads about 50 protesters in anti-war chants during a peace march in front of the Sand Point Naval Air Station. Also at the rally were members of the Warren Davis Defense Committee, a group organized in support of the Seattle Navy reservist awaiting court-martial for desertion. Davis, who had sought…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.04
Date:1991
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Logger Chad Johnson at logging industry rally, Federal Courthouse, Seattle, May 6, 1991
In 1990, the Northern Spotted Owl was placed on the federal endangered species list, and a plan was needed to protect the species. The owl’s primary habitat was the prime timber of the Pacific Northwest’s shrinking old growth forests. When the U.S. Forest Service proposed selling 66,000 acres of this old growth forest, environmental groups sought an injunction against the…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.05
Date:1991