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Segregation In Seattle
{{essay-like, date=May 2014 Like most of the United States, the Seattle metropolitan area has a history of segregationist policies and culture. This includes excluding job applicants, patients at hospitals, and turning away customers all on the basis of race. Restrictive housing covenants while they were legally effective from the early 1900s until the 1960s restricted non-white residents of Seattle's ability to own or rent homes in many neighborhoods and suburbs in Seattle. As a result, African-Americans in Seattle were concentrated into Seattle's Central District. On March 31 and April 1, 1966 thousands of Seattle Public School students boycotted the Central District in search for equality in the school systems. Many believed that the problems in the schools stemmed from almost 10,000 students being pushed into a limited amount of space. These locations were often underfunded and understaffed which resulted in poor test schools and low graduation rates. The number of protesters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley V
Shelley most often refers to: * Mary Shelley (1797–1851), the author of ''Frankenstein'' and the wife of Percy Shelley * Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), a major English Romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley * Shelley (name), a given name and a surname Shelley may also refer to: Film and television * ''Shelley'' (film), a 2016 Danish film * ''Shelley'' (TV series), a British sitcom that first aired in 1979 * Shelley (''American Horror Story''), a character on ''American Horror Story'' Music * Shelley (musician) (Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith, born 1988), a German-born American musician * Shelley (band) or Orlando, a British 1990s band * "Shelley" is the name of a Dance Hall Crashers song from their 1995 studio album ''Lockjaw''. Places * Shelley, Victoria, a former town in the Shire of Towong, Australia ** Shelley railway station, Victoria, a closed station * Shelley, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth * Shelley, British Columbia, Canada * She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central District, Seattle
The Central Area (commonly called the Central District or The CDMary T. HenrySeattle Neighborhoods: Central Area -- Thumbnail History HistoryLink, March 10, 2001. Accessed online 2009-10-19.) is a mostly residential neighborhood in Seattle located east of downtown and First Hill (12th Avenue and Rainier Avenue); west of Madrona, Leschi and Mt. Baker; south of Capitol Hill, and north of Rainier Valley. Historically, the Central District has been one of Seattle's most racially and ethnically diverse neighborhoods, and was once the center of Seattle's black community and a major hub of African-American businesses. History and demographics The culture and demographics of the Central District have changed repeatedly throughout many years. In 1882, William Grose purchased 12 acres of land in what was known as Madison Valley from Henry Yesler. Grose was already an established businessman in Seattle at the time, and his development of the area helped to establish the Central Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Public Schools Boycott Of 1966
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in the Seattle Public Schools. On March 31 and April 1, thousands of students left classes at their public schools, with the large majority of them attending community Freedom Schools instead. History Parents, civil-rights groups, and community organizations had spent years pushing the city to improve the public education system and make Seattle schools equitable for all children. They challenged the structure that concentrated children of color disproportionately in a few under-funded schools and demanded that the district improve the quality of these schools. However, they were unable to persuade the majority-white school board to deal with the issue. After years of frustration with city officials, a coalition of organizations led by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Civil Rights And Labor History Project
The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, one of the Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects, is dedicated to social movements and labor history in the Pacific Northwest. It is directed by Professor James N. Gregory of the University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni .... The project represents a unique collaboration between community organizations and University faculty, as well as undergraduate and graduate students. It has become a model of public history across the US and has been credited with changing the discussion of race and civil rights in the Seattle area. Content The site provides over 70 oral history interviews with short video excerpts and brief biographies, as well as a listing of historic Civil Rights organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Seattle
This is the main article of a series that covers the history of Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, United States of America. Seattle is a major port city that has a history of business cycle, boom and bust. Seattle has on several occasions been sent into severe decline, but has typically used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure. There have been at least five such cycles: * The lumber-industry boom, followed by the construction of an Olmsted Brothers, Olmsted-designed park system. * The Klondike gold rush started in 1896, but reached Seattle in July 1897. This constituted the largest boom for Seattle proportional to the city's size at the time, and ended the economic woes Seattle (and the nation) had been suffering since the Panic of 1893. * The shipbuilding boom, which peaked during World War I and crashed immediately thereafter, followed by the unused city development plan of Virgil Bogue. * The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
