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Videorecording
Oral history interview with David Lake, January 21, 2004
The interview of David Lake conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project on January 21, 2004. The interview begins with Lake’s description of how and why he got into winemaking, including his education, his early work in the wine business in Europe, and his becoming a Master of Wine. He describes the state of grape-growing and winemaking…
ID Number:2019.35.8.8
Date:2004
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Oral history interview with Vivian Laye, September 13, 2005
Interview with Vivian Laye, a Boeing employee during World War II, conducted by Anita Warmflash in Seattle for the Speaking of Seattle: African American Rosies Oral History Project in September 2005. Topics discussed include: moving to Seattle, her Boeing-subsidized education and work-life balance, the union, and other employment.
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.2
Date:2005
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Oral history interview with Doris Munz Cooper, April 10, 2010
Interview with Doris Munz Cooper conducted by Marsha King for the Eastside Political Women Oral History Project in April 2010. Cooper was a member of Kirkland's City Council from 1973 to 1984 and the first woman mayor of Kirkland from 1984 to 1990. Topics discussed include running for political office as a woman in the 1970s, her childhood and education,…
ID Number:2019.35.14.2
Date:2010
Photograph
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity Halloween party flier, 1988
Phi Beta Sigma is a historically Black fraternity founded in 1914 at Howard University. It rapidly expanded across the United States and beyond, with the University of Washington Kappa Lambda chapter opening in 1978. As of 2023, Phi Beta Sigma has more than 700 chapters and 200,000 members. This flier advertises a Halloween party hosted by the Kappa Lambda chapter…
ID Number:2019.96.1.21.7
Date:1988
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Amelia Garza, Grandview City Councillor, February 13, 1992
Amelia Garza (1937-2003) was an advocate for migrant workers in the Yakima Valley. She sat on the Grandview City Council for 13 years and was the first Latina to serve on the council. Garza also founded many community organizations in the Valley to assist residents with health services, education, and literacy. She focused her activism on the needs of people…
ID Number:2020.42.3.19.01.10
Date:1992
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Michael Dixon with students at Franklin High School, Seattle, March 6, 1992
Michael Dixon, younger brother of Aaron and Elmer Dixon, was born in Illinois and grew up in Seattle's Central District. His father worked at Boeing, and both parents taught the Dixon brothers the importance of fighting for social justice. Michael Dixon was a sophomore at Garfield High School when the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party was formed by…
ID Number:2020.42.3.20.02.03
Date:1992
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Michael Dixon at Garfield High School, March 6, 1992
Michael Dixon, younger brother of Aaron and Elmer Dixon, was born in Illinois and grew up in Seattle's Central District. His father worked at Boeing, and both parents taught the Dixon brothers the importance of fighting for social justice. Michael Dixon was a sophomore at Garfield High School when the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party was formed by…
ID Number:2020.42.3.20.02.43
Date:1992
Videorecording
Human Rights: The Constitution and Public Access, Community Television Agency program, July 12, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.21
Date:1989
Correspondence
Draft of letter from Evelyn Chapman to Washington legislators regarding Title I funding for the Northwest Center, May 26, 1969
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.01
Date:1969
Document
Draft of speech given by Evelyn J. Chapman to King County legislators, May 29, 1968
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.02
Date:1968