3246 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Tee Dennard of Black Arts/West, Seattle, February 21, 1980
Black Arts/West was Seattle’s first Black theatre and functioned as a three component program: theatre, dance, and an art gallery displaying the work of local and national artists. As a division of the Central Area Motivation Program, an anti-poverty agency, it was charged with getting young people involved and learning the necessary skills to survive and flourish in society.In this…
ID Number:2000.107.048.09.01
Date:1980
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Tee Dennard directing "The Playground," Seattle, July 18, 1990
In this image, artistic director Teotha "Tee" Dennard gives Toby Christian pointers during a rehearsal for "The Playground," a musical by Seattle playwright E. Shockley, about the tough choices many young people face over drugs, friendship, family, and their future. Mr. Christian and his 35 fellow performers participated in the production, to be performed for the public at Garfield High…
ID Number:2000.107.048.09.02
Date:1990
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Tee Dennard directing "The Playground," Seattle, July 18, 1990
This image of artistic director Teotha "Tee" Dennard was taken during a rehearsal for "The Playground," a musical by Seattle playwright E. Shockley, about the tough choices many young people face over drugs, friendship, family, and their future. The 36 performers, aged 9 to 19, participated in the production as part of a workshop through the city's summer youth employment…
ID Number:2000.107.048.09.03
Date:1990
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Portrait of Grace Denny, circa 1940
Grace Denny (1884-1971) was an expert in textiles and professor at the University of Washington (UW). She is unrelated to the Denny family of early Seattle settlers. Denny was born and raised in Nebraska and came to Seattle in 1914 to teach Home Economics at UW. During her time at the university, Denny helped substantially expand the Home Economics program.…
ID Number:2000.107.048.13.01
Date:1940
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Thelma Dewitty, September 3, 1947
Thelma Dewitty (1912-1977) joined the faculty of Seattle Public Schools in September 1947, one of the first two Black teachers hired by the district. Dewitty previously taught in Texas for 14 years, but segregationist policies there prevented her from attending graduate school, and she moved to Seattle to study at the University of Washington. Dewitty was hired in 1947 to…
ID Number:2000.107.049.03.01
Date:1947
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Thelma Dewitty, March 22, 1972
Thelma Dewitty (1912-1977) joined the faculty of Seattle Public Schools in September 1947, one of the first two Black teachers hired by the district. Dewitty previously taught in Texas for 14 years, but segregationist policies there prevented her from attending graduate school, and she moved to Seattle to study at the University of Washington. Dewitty was hired in 1947 to…
ID Number:2000.107.049.03.02
Date:1972
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants arriving at court, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon, and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:2000.107.049.31.01
Date:1968
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Portrait of Aaron Dixon, Seattle, September 1, 1988
Aaron Dixon was born in Chicago, and grew up in Seattle's Central District. His father worked at Boeing, and both parents taught Aaron and his brothers the importance of fighting for social justice. As a college student at the University of Washington, Dixon played a key role in the formation of the Black Student Union (BSU) and the Seattle Chapter…
ID Number:2000.107.049.31.02
Date:1988
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.02
Date:1979
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.03
Date:1979