770 results for: Activism
Poster
Freedom of Choice benefit concert poster, November 17, 1981
The poster pictured here advertises a rock concert featuring The Enemy and The Visible Targets, and benefiting the National Abortion Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America) and the Abortion and Birth Control Referral Service (a division of the University District YWCA). The Enemy (1978-1982) was a punk band featuring George Gleason, Suzanne Grant, Peter Barnes, and Damon Titus. Local…
ID Number:2013.87.82
Date:1981
Ephemera
CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
Ephemera
CORE jobs rally poster, October 4, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.2
Date:1964
Ephemera
CORE membership poster, 1966
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.3
Date:1966
Poster
Let's Keep the Market Initiative 10th Anniversary poster, Seattle, September 18 - November 2, 1981
On November 2, 1971, Seattle Initiative No. 1 passed to create a seven-acre historic district at Pike Place Market, ending eight years of activism against the plans of the Central Association of Seattle (precursor to the Downtown Seattle Association) to replace the Market with parking, office and hotel space, and some vendor stalls. Begun initially in 1907 as a way…
ID Number:2014.9.7
Date:1981
Ephemera
The Normal Heart program, 1986
"The Normal Heart" is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer (b. 1935) focusing on the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of main character Ned Weeks, a writer/activist and the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. After a initial successful 1985 Off-Broadway production at The…
ID Number:2014.40.12
Date:1986
Photograph
A. Philip Randolph at lecturn, Seattle, circa 1947
A. Philip (Asa Philip) Randolph (1889–1979) was a labor organizer and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).Labor activist C.L. (Cottrell Lawrence) Dellums (1900-1989) was a porter for the Pullman Company when he…
ID Number:2014.49.005.039.0448
Date:Circa 1947
Photograph
A. Philip Randolph and C.L. Dellums at speaking venue, Seattle, circa 1947
A. Philip (Asa Philip) Randolph (1889–1979) was a labor organizer and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).Labor activist C.L. (Cottrell Lawrence) Dellums (1900-1989) was a porter for the Pullman Company when he…
ID Number:2014.49.005.039.0449
Date:Circa 1947
Photograph
Dr. Ralph Bunche, Seattle, July 8, 1949
Dr. Ralph Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a United Nations mediator in Palestine during the 1948 conflict between Arabs and Jews. He was the first African American to receive the prize. Dr. Bunche (1904-1971) said mediators "should be biased against suspicion, intolerance, hate, religious and racial bigotry."Dr. Bunche came to Seattle in July 1949…
ID Number:2014.49.009.092.0365
Date:1949
Photograph
Stokely Carmichael speaking at Garfield High School, Seattle, April 19, 1967
In a speech to an overflow crowd at Garfield High School, Black Power leader Stokely Carmichael proclaimed "it's a new day" for African Americans, who should assert themselves and no longer be ashamed of their color. About 20% of the listeners were white and many joined in cheering the speaker as he jabbed at white America.Controversy preceded the event with…
ID Number:2014.49.09.17.01
Date:1967