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"Don't let the WTO boil you like a frog!" broadside, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.10
Date:1999
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"Divide the tax load with initiative no. 69" leaflet, 1932
Two hotly contested initiatives were on the November 8, 1932 ballot in Washington State: The Washington 40-Mill Tax Levy Limit Initiative, also known as Initiative 64, was approved by 61% of voters, limiting property taxes to 2 percent of assessed value; and the Washington Income Tax for Schools Initiative, also known as Initiative 69, which won 71 percent of the…
ID Number:2018.3.3.11
Date:1932
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"Be part of history: Join the big march for fair trade" flier, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.20
Date:1999
Serial
Helix, vol. 4, no. 9, Seattle, circa October 3, 1968
Seattle’s first underground newspaper, “Helix,” was published in March 1967. Inspired by similar papers in New York City, San Francisco, and Berkeley, the paper published some 125 issues before folding in June 1970. Led by Paul Dorpat (1938-2026) and Walt Crowley (1947-2007), the large and eclectic staff covered underground politics, drug culture, bulletins from the Liberation News Service, and rock…
ID Number:2018.3.6.40
Date:1968
Photograph
Rev. Samuel McKinney, Coretta Scott King, and Louise McKinney, Seattle, November 1961
Rev. Samuel B. McKinney, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, invited his friend and former classmate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to speak in Seattle in 1961. Dr. King arrived in Seattle on November 8, spoke at UW's Meany Hall and the Temple de Hirsch on November 9, and Garfield High School and the Eagles Auditorium on November 10. Afterward,…
ID Number:2018.10.7
Date:1961
Poster
Mayor Dore Apologizes poster, Seattle, 1936
Seattle has a long history of labor radicalism dating back into the 19th century. The 1930s saw a new burst of radical labor activism, with large scale strikes and boycotting that strengthened local labor unions representing longshoremen, woodworkers, truck drivers, and machinists. As unions grew in power, so did criticism of many union leaders who utilized heavy-handed methods of recruitment…
ID Number:2019.3.39
Date:1936
Poster
No Recall, No I-83, No More Delay poster, Seattle, 2004
Interest in expanding Seattle’s 1962 monorail line throughout the city gained momentum with signature-gathering petitions in 1994. In 1997, in spite of almost total opposition by the political establishment, city voters approved Initiative 41 for monorail expansion. Three years later voters approved an additional measure for planning money. Over the next few years, design and funding of the first phase…
ID Number:2019.3.41
Date:2004
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Larry Gossett, April 11, 2002
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). Larry Gossett served as a member of the King County Council…
ID Number:2019.35.1.28
Date:2002
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Eleanor Owen, March 20, 2002
Interview with Eleanor Owen (1921-2022), a journalist, playwright, university professor, costume designer, theatre actress, and mental health professional. She founded the Washington Advocates for the Mentally Ill in 1978 and co-founded the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) in 1979. She has received honors and award for her advocacy work on behalf of families and individuals with mental illness,…
ID Number:2019.35.1.48
Date:2002
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Joanna Buehler, January 16, 2006
Interview with Joanna Buehler, an environmentalist and founder of Save Lake Sammamish, conducted by Wendi Willeford for the Urban by Nature Oral History Project in January 2006.
ID Number:2019.35.10.1
Date:2006