1183 results for: Black/African American
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Ruth Geissmar and students at TT Minor Elementary School, Seattle, March 31, 1966
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in Seattle Public Schools. After years of frustration with city officials, a coalition of organizations led by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a boycott, requesting that all Seattle…
ID Number:1986.5.11603.12
Date:1966
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BSU occupation of Administration Building at UW, May 20, 1968
University of Washington's Black Student Union (BSU) was founded in early 1968 at a time when very few Black students attended the UW. Over the next several years the BSU led campaigns that transformed the University and helped reshape educational opportunities for young people of color in Seattle and throughout Washington state.On May 20, 1968, the Black Student Union occupied…
ID Number:1986.5.16852.4
Date:1968
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Larry Gossett leading students at BSU UW protest, May 20, 1968
University of Washington's Black Student Union was founded in early 1968 at a time when very few black students attended the UW. Over the next several years the BSU led campaigns that transformed the University and helped reshape educational opportunities for young people of color in Seattle and throughout Washington state.On May 20, 1968, University of Washington's Black Student Union…
ID Number:1986.5.16852.15
Date:1968
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Central Area youth with Ed Devine at Mayor's office, August 20, 1965
On August 19 and 20, 1965, a group of nine youths from the Central Area Youth Action Council occupied the reception area outside Mayor Dorm Braman's office in attempt to speak with the mayor. On both days, the mayor's administrative assistant, Ed Devine, told the group the mayor was expected to be out all day. The group made several requests…
ID Number:1986.5.18799.9
Date:1965
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J.D. 'Dorm' Braman, Edwin T. Pratt, Edwin C. Berry, Benjamin Weeks, 1967
Handwritten on sleeve: Edwin T.; Berry, Edwin C.; Weeks, Benjamin, Urban Leaguers. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 12, 1967.
ID Number:1986.5.19760.1
Date:1967
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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 White America.Controversy preceded the event with the…
ID Number:1986.5.21041.1
Date:1967
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Zoë Dusanne, Seattle, December 1961
Zoë Dusanne (1884-1972) was Seattle’s first professional modern art dealer, and the first woman and first African American to own their own gallery in the Seattle area. Born in Kansas, Dusanne followed her parents to Seattle in 1912. In 1913 her mother, Leticia Graves, helped found the Seattle chapter of the NAACP and was its first President; Zoë and her…
ID Number:1986.5.24097.1
Date:1961
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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