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HistoryLink.Org articles on African Americans and Civil Rights |
Note: These links were accurate when this page was created but they may have changed since then.
- African American firsts in Seattle/ King County
- Manual Lopes, First African American in Seattle, 1852 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2750
- First African American at UW, 1874 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1606
- William Grose, First African American in CD, 1882 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=393
- First black police officer in Seattle resigns quickly, 1890 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=273
- Boeing hires first African American employee 1942 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2916
- Harborview hires its first black nurse 1943 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2974
- Seattle’s first black bus driver lasts 4 months before he quits due to insults, 1945 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2967
- Seattle hires first black public school teachers, 1947
- First black state legislator from King County 1950 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=674
- Martin Luther King Jr. makes first and only visit to Seattle, 1961 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=673
- Seattle elects its first black City Councilmember, Sam Smith 1967 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1989
- First black UW regent, 1970 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2202
- First black woman on school board, 1975 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=291
- Rainier Club admits first black member, 1977 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2962
- Norm Rice elected Seattle’s first black mayor, 1989 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2234
- African American 1960s Civil Rights Leader Profiles
- Civil Rights Organizations
- African Americans and the Seattle police department
- Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Seattle Chapter
- Founded April, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1382
- Peace and Freedom Party, July, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1520
- Peace and Freedom Party, September , 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1557
- Seattle bans unconcealed weapons used “for intimidation,” September, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1561
- Rainier Beach High School Confrontation, September, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2293
- Welton Armstead killed, October, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3605
- Curtis Harris convicted of threatening officer, October, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1571
- Sidney Miller killed while shoplifting, November, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1581
- Aaron Dixon acquitted of stealing typewriter, December, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1590
- Sydney Miller Free Medical Clinic founded, December, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1335
- UW Black Student Union
- http://students.washington.edu/bsu/
- Franklin High School Sit In, March, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1378
- University of Washington Sit In, May, 1968
- Lead up negotiations
- Sit in, May 20, 1968
- UW administration endorses black studies program
- Sit in at Franklin High, June, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1240
- Cleveland High protests , November, 1968 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1582
- Seattle Central Community College Protests, March-April, 1969
- Massive protests against UW affiliation with Brigham Young University (BYU), March, 1970 http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2194
- African American Churches
- Mt Zion Baptist Church
- First AME Church
- African American Grace Presbyterian merges with Madrona Presbyterian Church, only to have Madrona Presbyterian sell its buildings, leave the Central District, and move to predominantly white Mercer Island, 1953. http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=4248
- African Americans in the arts
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