Tag Archives: Civil Rights
Frank Allen and Esther Ross Looking at Map to Plan Tribal Fish-In, 1968
Frank Allen and Esther Ross Looking at Map to Plan Tribal Fish-In, 1968
Stillaguamish Chief Frank Allen and Esther Ruth Ross point to an area on map they say belongs to the Stillaguamish tribe. They are planning a fish-in to protest the tribe’s loss of fishing rights on its ancestral lands.
Photographer: Howard Staples
Image Date: 1968
Image Number: 1986.5.4436.1
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Bernie Whitebear, Seattle, 1971
Bernie Whitebear was the leader of the United Indians of All Tribes who helped lead the occupation of Fort Lawton. This action led to the creation of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center.
Photographer: Cary Tolman
Image Date: 1971
Image Number: 1986.5.55140.1
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…Black and White Alike
from the Don Paulson Collection
Thursday Hidden Treasure
In the early 1960s, Seattle’s chapter of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) had already started in on some pretty big projects. They had been conducting protests and negotiations with supermarkets to integrate their work forces. They had been raising money to support the Freedom Rides in the South. But by 1962, there was an interest in working with Downtown Seattle’s large department stores to integrate their work forces.
…Being Taken For a Ride
From Don Paulsen Collection
Thursday Hidden Treasure
In late 1963, the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) started investigating discriminatory hiring practices in the three largest Seattle taxi cab companies, Yellow Cab, Graytop and Farwest. It was found that Graytop and Farwest had not a single African-American driver. While Graytop simply had no African-American drivers, Farwest blatantly refused to. According to Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity, “Farwest was sure white passengers would refuse to get in a cab behind a black driver.” Continue reading »
…Proving Women Can
Thursday Hidden Treasure
Seattleites have fought for their civil rights since the city began. In the 1960s some women started to work to end discrimination based on sex or gender. (Of course many had been fighting before this, but the agitation in the 1960s had a renewed vigor and made many connections to other civil rights fights going on at the same time.) Continue reading »
…Fighting for Equal Rights
Rev. Samuel McKinney, Mayor Gordon Clinton, and Rev. Mance Jackson at Anti-Segregation March, Seattle, 1963
Sunday Quote:
The undercurrent of national unrest in racial relations has bubbled to the surface in Seattle. Continue reading »
