770 results for: Activism
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Ida May Daly, director of the Handicapped Center, in her office, Seattle, November 1963
Ida May Daly, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed muscular dystrophy at age three. While this progressive disease weakened her muscles and confined her to a wheelchair in her thirties, it challenged her to become a tireless advocate for people with disabilities. In the 1950s, she worked with the Seattle Parks Department to found and run the Handicapped Center, which…
ID Number:1986.5.22836.1
Date:1963
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Marie Edwards receiving certificate at King County Youth Services Center, March 1960
Marie and Isaiah Edwards arrived in Seattle from Kansas in 1942 to work at Boeing. While working the swing shift, Marie Edwards decided use her mornings to study the beauty business, and she apprenticed with Ruth Whiteside, who had a beauty school at Seventh Avenue and Jackson Street. Edwards bought the school from Whiteside in 1946, and the Marie Edwards…
ID Number:1986.5.24280.1
Date:1960
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UW Black Student Union officers receiving Sidney Gerber Memorial Award, June 6, 1968
In June 1968, the University of Washington Black Student Union (BSU) received the Sidney Gerber Memorial Award, given for "outstanding accomplishments in the field of intergroup relations and human rights." The BSU received the award specifically for "intelligent, productive and non-violent work in bringing about progress at the University of Washington." This photo shows three officers of the UW BSU…
ID Number:1986.5.26555.2
Date:1968
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Janet McCloud, Lillian Gregory, and Jack Tanner at press conference, Olympia, July 3, 1968
Janet Joy "Yet-Si-Blue" (Renecker) McCloud (1934-2003) was a Tulalip tribe member and an Indigenous activist who was prominent in the "fish wars" that led to the Boldt Decision, a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and steelhead trout catch.In this image Janet McCloud, left, and Jack Tanner, right, listen to Lillian Gregory, center, speak at a press…
ID Number:1986.5.26914.23
Date:1964
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Curtis Harris, member of Seattle Black Panther party, September 19, 1968
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:1986.5.27790.14
Date:1968
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Philip Hayasaka sitting at desk, Seattle, August 30, 1968
Philip Hayasaka was born in 1926 and raised in a Japanese American neighborhood on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. He was incarcerated during World War II. After attending the University of Washington and serving in the Korean War, Hayasaka became active in civil rights in Seattle. He served as President of the multi-racial Jackson Street Community Council and led the Seattle Chapter…
ID Number:1986.5.28105.8
Date:1968
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Portrait of Charles V. Johnson, Seattle, August 22, 1967
Charles Vernon Johnson (b. 1928) was raised in Arkansas and moved to Seattle in 1954 to attend law school at the University of Washington. Upon graduation, Mr. Johnson went into private practice, and shortly thereafter took on leading roles in both the Seattle Branch of the NAACP and in the Central Area Civil Rights Organization. He was heavily involved in…
ID Number:1986.5.30323.6
Date:1967
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Sharon Maeda, June 1962
Sharon Maeda (b. 1945) is a longtime Seattle activist for the rights of women and racial minorities. Maeda’s parents were incarcerated at the Minidoka concentration camp during World War II and she was born in Milwaukee after her parents were allowed to leave the camp, but before they were permitted to return to the Pacific Northwest. Maeda taught middle school…
ID Number:1986.5.33992.1
Date:1962
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Rev. Dr. Samuel McKinney, probably in Seattle, 1958
Handwritten on negative: Rev. Samuel McKinney.Handwritten on sleeve: McKinney, Samuel B., Rev.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 31, 1958.
ID Number:1986.5.35335.1
Date:1958
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United Black Front president Dave Mills, Seattle, July 1969
Throughout 1969, Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central Community College) faced a series of boycotts, demonstrations, and riots, with students demanding a Black studies program and the hiring of Black administrators and faculty. To address protests over the lack of African American representation on the board, in July 1969 Governor Dan Evans appointed Marvin Glass, a Pacific Northwest Bell engineer…
ID Number:1986.5.36019.1
Date:1969