3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Earl Debnam in front of Colman School, Seattle, July 1990
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2000.107.046.22.01
Date:1990
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Earl Debnam in front of Colman School, February 16, 1993
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2000.107.046.22.02
Date:1993
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Baba Jeanne Mangaoang speaking at Congressional hearing, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1954
Baba Jeanne "B.J." (Sears) Mangaoang (1915-2007) was a Seattle woman who remained active in Communist Party (CP) politics, the fight against the Red Scare, and advocated for peace and social justice throughout her life. She was introduced to the CP as a student at the University of Washington in the early 1930s, formally joining the Party in 1938. She worked…
ID Number:2000.107.046.27.01
Date:1954
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Brock Evans, Mike Lowry, and Jim Whittaker on environmental walk, Seattle, May 3, 1982
Environmental advocate Brock Evans (1937-), Representative Mike Lowry (1939-2017), and mountaineer Jim Whittaker (1929-), left to right, walk the final two miles of a week-long, 87-mile trek from the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area to Gas Works Park. The walk was sponsored by more than 30 environmental groups to protest oil and gas leasing in wilderness areas. Caption information source: The…
ID Number:2000.107.047.30.01
Date:1982
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Army veterans at meeting to save the Public Health Hospital, Seattle, April 24, 1981
Army veterans August Mac Key (left) and Henry Wallace are "in full support of the cause" to save the Public Health Hospital. They were among about 250 people who showed up to tell two Seattle congressmen, U. S. Representatives Mike Lowry (1939-2017) and Joel Pritchard (1925-1997), that the hospital should stay open. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, April 25,…
ID Number:2000.107.047.31.01
Date:1981
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Perry Watkins speaking at Pride Week rally, Seattle, June 26, 1983
Tacoma native Perry Watkins (1948-1996), a U. S. Army sergeant who fought a legal battle with the military over his homosexuality, speaks at a rally in Freeway Park after about 2,000 gay right supporters marched through downtown Seattle. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, June 27, 1983, page 25Caption information source: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/21/nyregion/perry-watkins-48-gay-sergeant-won-court-battle-with-army.htmlCaption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.01
Date:1983
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Donovan Cook speaking before a march honoring archbishop of El Salvador, Seattle, March 27, 1983
The Reverend Donovan Cook of University Baptist Church addresses the crowd before an ecumenical march from the church to Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. The march was held in commemoration of the March 24, 1980 assassination of El Salvador's Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1917-1980), and to protest U. S. aid to that nation's government.The church, located at 4554 12th…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.02
Date:1983
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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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Maryamu Eltayeb protesting outside Federal Building against US invasion of Grenada, October 26, 1983
In October 1983, the United States invaded the nation of Grenada in the aftermath of a coup there. The invasion immediately provoked opposition in the US, with many demonstrators protesting against what they saw as another Vietnam War. Many who protested against the Grenada invasion were also active in movements to end US military intervention elsewhere, especially El Salvador. This…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.04
Date:1983
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Anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting at South African consulate, Seattle, December 25, 1984
In this image, Jewish demonstrators carry signs written in English and Hebrew at the South African consulate in Madison Park. The group picketed the consulate on Christmas day to allow the Christian groups who regularly held demonstrations there to stay home to celebrate Christmas. The anti-Apartheid protesters demanded the release of all political prisoners, the shutting down of the consulate…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.01
Date:1984