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Program for Paul Robeson concert at Seattle Civic Auditorium, May 20, 1952
On May 20, 1952, American actor and singer Paul Robeson overcame blacklisting, a press blackout, and a City Council ban to perform at the Seattle Civic Auditorium in a "Peoples Program" presented by the Seattle Chapter of the National Negro Labor Council.A civil rights activist and anti-fascist sympathetic to communism, Robeson was investigated and blacklisted beginning in the late 1940s.…
ID Number:1998.4.2
Date:1952
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Clara B. White and two children on porch of house, Seattle, circa 1975
Clara B. White owned and lived in the duplex at 729-731 22nd Avenue in the Central District of Seattle. She was a seamstress and was one of the first African-American women to own property in Seattle. The education wing at the First African Metodist Episcopal Church is named after her, as she was a Sunday School teacher there for 60…
ID Number:2000.30.2
Date:Circa 1975
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UW crew team members Gordon Adam and Norm Turay, Seattle, circa 1936
In this image two members of the Husky men's rowing team sit outside what appears to be the crew house on the University of Washington campus. Both men were coached by the legendary Alvin M. Ulbrickson (1903-1980) and Thomas Bolles (1902-1978), racing in boats built by George Pocock (1891-1976). This famed period in UW rowing history was featured in Daniel…
ID Number:2000.107.002.18.01
Date:Circa 1936
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Ernestine Anderson at home in Seattle, January 31, 1984
Ernestine Anderson (1928-2016) was an internationally renowned American jazz and blues singer. Her connection to Seattle began when her family moved to the city 1944, and she was discovered by band leader "Bumps" Blackwell, who hired her as a singer for his Junior Band. Anderson's first show was at the Washington Social Club on East Madison Street. The band (which…
ID Number:2000.107.007.24.03
Date:1984
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Richard Belmont speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 6, 1972
When 140 acres of their ancestral land on Oyster Bay was declared surplus by the federal government, the Suquamish Tribe sought to have it returned to the tribe. They wanted to use to site for an Indian canoe house and racing area, an Indian historical and cultural center, an center for marine science and ecology, and a meeting facility that…
ID Number:2000.107.019.39.01
Date:1973
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Black Panthers protesting on steps of Capitol building, Olympia, February 28, 1969
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:2000.107.022.21.02
Date:1969
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Former Black Panther Party headquarters house, Seattle, 1973
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry 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:2000.107.022.21.04
Date:1973
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Notice on former Black Panther party headquarters house, Seattle, 1973
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry 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:2000.107.022.21.05
Date:1973
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Bertha Pitts Campbell, Seattle, January 1981
Bertha Pitts Campbell (1889-1990) was a Seattle civil rights activist. She was born in Kansas and grew up in Colorado. During her studies at Howard University, Campbell founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority with 21 other women. Delta Sigma Theta is a historically Black sorority and it advocates for civil rights, especially educational opportunities for Black people. Campbell moved to…
ID Number:2000.107.031.12.01
Date:1981
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Bertha Pitts Campbell sitting, Seattle, January 1981
Bertha Pitts Campbell (1889-1990) was a Seattle civil rights activist. She was born in Kansas and grew up in Colorado. During her studies at Howard University, Campbell founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority with 21 other women. Delta Sigma Theta is a historically Black sorority and it advocates for civil rights, especially educational opportunities for Black people. Campbell moved to…
ID Number:2000.107.031.12.02
Date:1981