1950 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
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Dorothy Cordova teaching Filipino folk dancing to children, Seattle, August 31, 1987
Dorothy (Laigo) Cordova (b. 1932) and Frederic Pilar “Fred” Cordova (1931-2013), both second-generation Filipino Americans, met and married in Seattle, where they devoted their lives to their family, to championing social justice issues, preserving Filipino American history, and empowering youth. In 1957, the couple founded the Filipino Youth Activities of Seattle (FYA) to engage young people in activities that instilled…
ID Number:2000.107.041.21.01
Date:1987
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Dorothy Cordova discussing education policy, Seattle, February 29, 1988
Dorothy (Laigo) Cordova (b. 1932) and Frederic Pilar “Fred” Cordova (1931-2013), both second-generation Filipino Americans, met and married in Seattle, where they devoted their lives to their family, to championing social justice issues, preserving Filipino American history, and empowering youth. In 1957, the couple founded the Filipino Youth Activities of Seattle (FYA) to engage young people in activities that instilled…
ID Number:2000.107.041.21.02
Date:1988
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Fred Cordova and students looking at Filipino American archive, Seattle, August31, 1987
Dorothy (Laigo) Cordova (b. 1932) and Frederic Pilar “Fred” Cordova (1931-2013), both second-generation Filipino Americans, met and married in Seattle, where they devoted their lives to their family, to championing social justice issues, preserving Filipino American history, and empowering youth. In 1957, the couple founded the Filipino Youth Activities of Seattle (FYA) to engage young people in activities that instilled…
ID Number:2000.107.041.21.03
Date:1987
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Fred and Dorothy Cordova at home, Seattle, November 11, 1963
Dorothy (Laigo) Cordova (b. 1932) and Frederic Pilar “Fred” Cordova (1931-2013), both second-generation Filipino Americans, met and married in Seattle, where they devoted their lives to their family, to championing social justice issues, preserving Filipino American history, and empowering youth. In 1957, the couple founded the Filipino Youth Activities of Seattle (FYA) to engage young people in activities that instilled…
ID Number:2000.107.041.21.04
Date:1963
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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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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