Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing available to racial minorities. The councils petitioned the city to investigate claims of housing discrimination. In 1968, Caver was hired to work at Seattle’s newly established Human Rights Commission. She was promoted to assistant director in 1970 and to director in 1975. Caver was administrator of the Girl Scouts of Western Washington from 1981-1993. In 1994-1995, she served in the Washington House of Representatives in the 37th District, Position 2.
This image shows Caver in 1975, when she was promoted to director of Seattle's Department of Human Rights.
Caption information source: Vivan Leona Caver (1928-2021), by Phyllis Fletcher for BlackPast, retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/caver-vivian-leona-1928/. Caption information source: "Woman to head city rights department," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 10, 1975, page A3.
