135 results for: Seattle Public Schools
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Student Eddie Releford in Cleveland High School's radio/television studio, Seattle, November 25, 1979
In the late 1970s, community and Seattle School District planners worked on a 1990 building plan to be adopted the following year. Faced with shrinking enrollments and the need to desegregate, they recommended that a number of schools, including Cleveland High School, on Seattle’s Beacon Hill, be shut down and teachers and students be moved to other schools. Cleveland students…
ID Number:2000.107.186.14.01
Date:1979
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Children crossing 32nd Ave. N. near Harrison School, Seattle, April 26, 1951
The intersection shown here is located at 32nd Avenue North and East Republican Street, in the Harrison/Denny-Blaine neighborhood of Seattle's Central District. The intersection was described by residents at the time as a bad place for children to cross because there were no traffic lights. The cars in the picture are traveling north on 32nd Ave. as the children at…
ID Number:2000.107.190.06.02
Date:1951
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Helen Beck Stafford, June 30, 1987
Helen Beck Stafford (1899-2002) was a community and civil rights activist in Tacoma. Stafford attended Kansas State University, where she was not allowed live in the dorms, swim in the campus pool, or use other facilities required by her course work because she was Black. Despite a college experience rife with discrimination and racial insults, she excelled and graduated in…
ID Number:2000.107.204.01.01
Date:1987
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Helen Taverniti with her piano student, Seattle, March 28, 1984
Helen Elizabeth (Stewart) Taverniti Morse (1921-2005) was a musician, composer, and music teacher in Seattle. Born in Iowa, Taverniti attended Seattle Public Schools and University of Washington, and studied piano beginning at age 4. She wrote two musicals for the Seattle Civic Repertory Playhouse, and had a career as a performer for over 50 years. Taverniti was well-known as a…
ID Number:2000.107.210.21.01
Date:1984
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T. J. Vassar discussing teacher's strike, Seattle, September 5, 1985
One of the first three black students to enroll at Seattle's elite Lakeside School, Thomas "T.J." Vassar, Jr. (1950-2013) went on to Harvard, then returned to Seattle, became director of LEEP (Lakeside Educational Enrichment Program) and a member of Lakeside’s faculty, and later served on the Seattle School Board. Mr. Vassar was a highly-regarded local advocate for diversity and social…
ID Number:2000.107.219.27.01
Date:1985
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Ruth Velozo discussing Northwest Second Harvest, Seattle, July 2, 1979
Northwest Harvest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1967 by The Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry (EMM), an interfaith organization committed to identifying and addressing the primary problems of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization created Neighbors in Need and opened 34 food banks in what was initially conceived of as a short-term solution to an employment crisis in Seattle. As…
ID Number:2000.107.219.31.02
Date:1979
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Ruth Velozo worrying over empty shelves at Northwest Harvest, Seattle, April 6, 1981
Northwest Harvest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1967 by The Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry (EMM), an interfaith organization committed to identifying and addressing the primary problems of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization created Neighbors in Need and opened 34 food banks in what was initially conceived of as a short-term solution to an employment crisis in Seattle. As…
ID Number:2000.107.219.31.03
Date:1981
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Ruth Velozo sorting food with volunteers at Northwest Second Harvest, Seattle, August 3, 1983
Northwest Harvest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1967 by The Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry (EMM), an interfaith organization committed to identifying and addressing the primary problems of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization created Neighbors in Need and opened 34 food banks in what was initially conceived of as a short-term solution to an employment crisis in Seattle. As…
ID Number:2000.107.219.31.04
Date:1983
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Mary Lou Johnson, Howard Johnson, and Ruth Velozo with delivery at Northwest Harvest, Seattle, December 10, 1986
Northwest Harvest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1967 by The Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry (EMM), an interfaith organization committed to identifying and addressing the primary problems of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization created Neighbors in Need and opened 34 food banks in what was initially conceived of as a short-term solution to an employment crisis in Seattle. As…
ID Number:2000.107.219.31.05
Date:1986
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Kuuseng Sateurn and Lai Sio receiving goods from Ruth Velozo at Northwest Harvest, Seattle, December 27, 1990
Northwest Harvest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1967 by The Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry (EMM), an interfaith organization committed to identifying and addressing the primary problems of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization created Neighbors in Need and opened 34 food banks in what was initially conceived of as a short-term solution to an employment crisis in Seattle. As…
ID Number:2000.107.219.31.06
Date:1990