513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Students overturning car in Earth Day demonstration outside Seattle Community College, Seattle, 1970
Earth Day was first observed nationwide on April 22, 1970. In Seattle, a number of activities marked the day, including rallies, speeches, and educational exhibits. This photo documents a more active response, as students at Seattle Central Community College destroy an automobile as the symbol of air pollution. Handwritten on sleeve: S.C.C. Earth Day. Date photograph was filed at the…
ID Number:1986.5.52119.2
Date:1970
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Earth Day booth, Seattle, April 22, 1970
On April 22, 1970, a nationwide program to spend one day considering issues of environental protection, was observed in Seattle for the first time. Some 3,000 people came to the Seattle Center to look at exhibit booths, view films, and listen to speeches and discussions. Earth Day continues to be observed each year on April 22. Handwritten on sleeve: Ecology…
ID Number:1986.5.52123.1
Date:1970
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Protestors and police on I-5, Seattle, May 5, 1970
Thousands of protesting University of Washington students and faculty members blocked Interstate 5 for nearly an hour as they marched to a rally at the U.S. Courthouse downtown. The crowd had gathered on campus to demand that the university take a moral stand against the killing of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen and the bombing of Cambodia…
ID Number:1986.5.52212.1
Date:1970
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Anti-war march, Seattle, May 5, 1970
Anti-war demonstrators carry an American flag upside down as they march from the University of Washington campus to the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle. Similar demonstrations took place on campuses all over the country after 4 Kent State University students were shot by the Ohio National Guard while protesting the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Signs in image: National Student Strike!…
ID Number:1986.5.52219.1
Date:1970
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Anti-war demonstration at federal courthouse, Seattle, May 5, 1970
Anti-war demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle after marching from the University of Washington campus. Similar demonstrations took place on campuses all over the country in protest of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Four Kent State University students protesting this same issue were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard. Handwritten on sleeve: Federal Court House;…
ID Number:1986.5.52235.1
Date:1970
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Black Panthers demonstrating at federal courthouse, Seattle, 1969
Black Panthers demonstrating at federal courthouse, Seattle, May 1969
A peaceful rally in support of imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey Newton was held at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle on May 1, 1969. Members of the Black Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demanded that Newton be released from prison. Other organizations represented at the rally included the University of Washington Black Student Union, the Young…
ID Number:1986.5.52268.2
Date:1969
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Rally in support of Huey Newton at federal Courthouse, Seattle, May 1, 1969
A peaceful rally in support of imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey Newton was held at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle on May 1, 1969. Members of the Black Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demanded that Newton be released from prison. Other organizations represented at the rally included the University of Washington Black Student Union, the Young…
ID Number:1986.5.52268.4
Date:1969
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Elmer Dixon at King County courthouse, Seattle, October 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:1986.5.52275.22A
Date:1968
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Die-in protest to protest nerve gas shipments, Seattle, May 17, 1970
In 1969, the U.S. Army announced plans to ship nerve gas from Okinawa to storage depots in the Pacific Northwest. Some 36 trains would carry the gas through Washington and Oregon. Opposition was strong and included lawsuits and demonstrations. In May 1970, the Seattle chapter of the People Against Nerve Gas (PANG) announced a “die-in” demonstration to take place at…
ID Number:1986.5.52302.7
Date:1970
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Muckleshoot Tribe members practicing treaty fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970
In the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and…
ID Number:1986.5.52952.7
Date:1970