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Bishop John Hurst Adams was pastor at Seattle's First African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1962 to 1968 and a leader in the city's civil rights struggle. He moved to other cities and states after 1...
Nora B. Adams was an African American Seattle Public School principal who left more than $1 million in her estate to three of her major interests. She left $600,000 to the Seattle Public Schools Schol...
Nettie Craig Asberry was an extraordinary, early African American resident of Tacoma who was known for her work in fighting racism and in helping to open doors for women. A founding member of the Taco...
The Atlantic Street Center is a nonprofit social service agency that has been operating for 100 years in the Central and Southeast areas of Seattle. Its mission has been to help families and communiti...
Powell S. Barnett, a Seattle musician, baseball player, and community leader, was the organizer and first president of the Leschi Community Council. He was a leader in organizing the East Madison YMCA...
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actor, librarian, and television personality. She was born in Tacoma and lived for much of her life in Seattle. She was a talen...
Robert A. Bass was one of Washington state's first African American school principals. He was an advocate for diversity and equal educational opportunity in the school district. He and his twin brothe...
By David J. Jepsen and David J. NorbergJohn Wiley & Sons, 2017Paperback, 416 pagesPhotographs, notes, bibliography, indexISBN 978-1-119-06554-8$34.95
By Robert Spalding Washington State University Press, 2018 Paperback, 220 pages Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, appendices ISBN 978-0-87422-359-0 $22.95
By Kit Bakke Washington State University Press, 2018 Paperback, 252 pages ISBN 978-0-87422-356-9 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index $22.95
Philip Burton was a Seattle lawyer for more than 40 years, a voice for the disadvantaged, and a fighter for reforms to end discrimination in education, housing, and employment. His legal actions led t...
Seattle's Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP) is the oldest surviving independent agency originating during the War on Poverty era (in 1964) and was the first community inspired program in the coun...
Bertha Pitts Campbell, an early Seattle civil rights worker, was a founder of the Christian Friends for Racial Equality and an early board member of the Seattle Urban League. She was also one of 22 yo...
Horace Cayton was the African American publisher of the Seattle Republican, a newspaper directed toward both white and black readers and which at one point had the second largest circulation in the ci...
In 1861, William Grose (1835-1898), African American pioneer, arrives in Seattle and becomes a successful businessman.
On March 27, 1897, Jane A. Ruley, the first African American teacher in Kitsap County, is hired.
In the fall of 1907, Seattle's Episcopal Church of the Epiphany is founded. It begins in a storefront in the Madrona area and will later be located at 1803 38th Avenue in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood...
On October 23, 1913, the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, and becomes the first national civil rights organization to be established...
On March 6, 1921, Martin G. Johanson (1887-1984), a young Seattle real estate agent, and a small group of friends and supporters begin serving low-cost or free meals to homeless people in Pioneer Squa...
Colman Swimming Pool is integrated in 1944 by direct action of students. African American students at the University of Washington demonstrate in an effort to integrate the pool at Lincoln Park in Wes...
In 1946, the Seattle Urban League, reorganized and enlarged, establishes training programs to improve the skills and raise the qualifications of nonwhites.
In 1946, in Seattle, the Asian and African American communities organize the Jackson Street Community Council (JSCC) to support neighborhood businesses and social service organizations.
The employment and income of African Americans living in Seattle continues to improve after the end of World War II in 1946.
On April 5, 1948, Washington State charters The Royal Esquire Club. The club was organized by five young men who found no welcoming place in Seattle for black men to socialize. They were Doyle Bonner,...
In 1949, the Washington State Legislature enacts the Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA). The FEPA rules discrimination based on race, creed, color, or national origin prohibited in employment.
Washington State Board Against Discrimination is created in 1949 to encourage compliance with the Fair Employment Practices Act.
In 1950, in Seattle, the Citizen's Committee for Fair Employment leads boycotts against Safeway Stores and Frederick & Nelson, a downtown department store. The boycotts result in the hiring of Afr...
On December 9, 1955, the Seattle Chapter of The Links, Incorporated is chartered. This is a national organization of more than 10,000 predominately African American women in 274 chapters located in 42...