178 results for: Police and Law Enforcement
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Police and picketers at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, May 21, 1990
In this image, demonstrators with the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP/Seattle (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) rally over the lack of federally funded research on treatments for HIV. They are picketing in front of a Seattle Police van brought to the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) at 11th Avenue and Cherry Street to carry off demonstrators occupying the building. One…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.15
Date:1990
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Duane Glaesman being stopped by police officer during protest, November 18, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.04
Date:1993
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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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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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Portrait of Fabienne Brooks, Seattle, 1998
Fabienne Brooks was the first Black woman to work as a police detective in the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO). She graduated second in her class at the police academy in 1978, both the only Black person and the only woman in the class. Brooks was hired by the KCSO as a detective and worked in the sex crimes unit,…
ID Number:2000.107.027.22.01
Date:1998
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Demonstrators protesting inquest verdict on Robert Baldwin's death, Seattle, July 12, 1984
On March 27, 1984, Robert Baldwin killed King County Police Officer Michael Raeburn with a sword when he was being served a notice evicting him from a Yesler Terrace apartment. After a 17-hour standoff, the emergency-response team stormed the unit. Baldwin died of 21 bullet wounds in his back. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, the jury found the police…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.03
Date:1984
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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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Gulf War protestors on I-5, Seattle, January 15, 1991
After the U.S. bombing of Baghdad in January 1991, Seattle activists called for anti-war demonstrations. Some protestors held a vigil at the Federal Building; others marched northwards to a rally at Westlake. Still others marched onto Interstate 5 where they sat on the highway for a short while, blocking traffic during the early rush hour. This image from the Denny…
ID Number:2000.107.048.02.02
Date:1991
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Elmer Dixon speaking against Youth Patrol proposal, Seattle, March 1, 1968
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.10
Date:1968
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Larry Gossett speaking at anti-police violence demonstration, Seattle, April 20, 1971
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young Black radicals. In 1967 he was active in Seattle’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett developed a close relationship with other activists for racial justice,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.07
Date:1971