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Demonstration for reduction in voting age, Seattle, 1969
Signs in image: We Support the 18-Year-Olds Right to Vote. 18 Year Old Vote. Support Your 18 Yr Old Vote. Handwritten on sleeve: March to promote lowered voting age by 18 year olds. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 10, 1969.
ID Number:1986.5.50631.1
Date:1969
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Police watching Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protest on Seattle Community College's Edison campus, Seattle, 1969
In 1969, Seattle Community College (SCC) faced boycotts, demonstrations, and rioting in protest of disparities in funding and academic focus between the College's central campus, located near the city's Black residential area, and the north and south campuses, located in predominantly white neighborhoods. Out of $33 million in capital funds for the three campuses, the central campus, located on Capitol…
ID Number:1986.5.50743.1
Date:1969
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Police guarding building during Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protest on Seattle Community College's Summit campus, Seattle, 1969
In 1969, Seattle Community College (SCC) faced boycotts, demonstrations, and rioting in protest of disparities in funding and academic focus between the College's central campus, located near the city's Black residential area, and the north and south campuses, located in predominantly white neighborhoods. Out of $33 million in capital funds for the three campuses, the central campus, located on Capitol…
ID Number:1986.5.50743.2
Date:1969
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Police with Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protestors on Seattle Community College's Summit campus, Seattle, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle's Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:1986.5.50743.3
Date:1969
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Students protesting outside Seattle Community College, Seattle, May 22, 1969
In 1969, Seattle Community College (SCC) faced boycotts, demonstrations, and rioting in protest of disparities in funding and academic focus between the College's central campus, located near the city's Black residential area, and the north and south campuses, located in predominantly white neighborhoods. Out of $33 million in capital funds for the three campuses, the central campus, located on Capitol…
ID Number:1986.5.50743.4
Date:1969
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A. Frank Williams addressing protesters outside SCC, Seattle, May 22, 1969
In 1969, Seattle Community College (SCC) faced boycotts, demonstrations, and rioting in protest of disparities in funding and academic focus between the College's central campus, located near the city's Black residential area, and the north and south campuses, located in predominantly white neighborhoods. Out of $33 million in capital funds for the three campuses, the central campus, located on Capitol…
ID Number:1986.5.50743.5
Date:1969
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Earth Day booth, Seattle, April 22, 1970
On April 22, 1970, a nationwide program to spend one day considering issues of environental protection, was observed in Seattle for the first time. Some 3,000 people came to the Seattle Center to look at exhibit booths, view films, and listen to speeches and discussions. Earth Day continues to be observed each year on April 22. Handwritten on sleeve: Ecology…
ID Number:1986.5.52123.1
Date:1970
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Black Panthers demonstrating at federal courthouse, Seattle, 1969
Black Panthers demonstrating at federal courthouse, Seattle, May 1969
A peaceful rally in support of imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey Newton was held at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle on May 1, 1969. Members of the Black Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demanded that Newton be released from prison. Other organizations represented at the rally included the University of Washington Black Student Union, the Young…
ID Number:1986.5.52268.2
Date:1969
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Rally in support of Huey Newton at federal Courthouse, Seattle, May 1, 1969
A peaceful rally in support of imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey Newton was held at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle on May 1, 1969. Members of the Black Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demanded that Newton be released from prison. Other organizations represented at the rally included the University of Washington Black Student Union, the Young…
ID Number:1986.5.52268.4
Date:1969
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Elmer Dixon at King County courthouse, Seattle, October 1968
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:1986.5.52275.22A
Date:1968