Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid.

In this image, Seattle civil-rights activist and community organizer Larry Gossett, wrists zip tied, steps into a police van. He and 22 others were arrested for trespassing at the South African consulate.

Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young black radicals. In 1967 he was active in the Seattle chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett served as executive director of CAMP, the Central Area Motivation Program from 1979-1993. In 1993, Gossett was elected to the King County Council, where he served six terms before being defeated in 2019.

Caption information source: “Apartheid protesters march at S. African consulate here”, by Jerry E. Carson, The Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 9, 1984, page D5.
Caption information source: “23 seized at apartheid protest”, by Don Tewkesbury, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 10, 1984, pages A1 and A11.
Caption information source: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/gossett.htm