Description: | These in-depth historical essays explore fascinating issues and incidents. Each is fully illustrated with photos and newspaper articles. Graduate and undergraduate students in History and Labor Studies at the University of Washington produced these articles. Contents as of viewing the web site on 9/5/07 consist of: The Chicano Movement in Washington State 1967-2006, Part 1, Political Activism by Oscar Rosales Castaneda; Christian Friends for Racial Equality 1942-1970 by Johanna Phillips; By Right of Discovery: United Indians of All Tribes Retakes Fort Lawton, 1970 by Lossom Allen; United Indians of All Tribes Meets the Press: News Coverage of the 1970 Occupation of Fort Lawton by Karen Smith; American Indian Women's Service League: Raising the Cause of Urban Indians, 1958-71 by Karen Smith; Indian Civil Rights Hearings: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Comes to Seattle, 1977 by Laurie Johnstonbaugh; Challenging Sexism at City Light: The Electrical Trades Trainee Program by Nicole Grant; The 1920 Anti-Japanese Crusade and Congressional Hearings by Doug Blair; "Pride and Shame": The Museum Exhibit that Helped Launch the Japanese American Redress Movement by Allison Shephard; Battle at Boeing: African Americans and the Campaign for Jobs 1939-1942 by Sarah Miner; The 1965 Freedom Patrols & the Origins of Seattle's Police Accountability Movement by Jennifer Taylor; After Internment: Seattle's Debate Over Japanese Amricans' Right to Return Home by Jennifer Speidel; Seattle's Electrical Workers Minority Caucus: A History by Nicole Grant; Blocking Racial Intermarriage Laws in 1935 and 1937: Seattle's First Civil Rights Coalition by Stefanie Johnson; Susie Revels Cayton: "The Part She Played" by Michelle L. Goshorn; Black Longshoreman: The Frank Jenkins Story by Megan Elston; La Raza Comes to Campus: The New Chicano Contingent and the Grape Boycott at the University of Washington, 1968-69 by Jeremy Simer; Revels Cayton: African American Communist and Labor Activist by Sarah Falconer; Victorio Velasco, Pioneer of Filipino-American Journalism by Erik Luthy; Cannery Workers' and Farm Laborers' Union 1933-39: Their Strength in Unity by Crystal Fresco; The Local 7/Local 37 Story: Filipino American Cannery Unionism in Seattle 1940-1959 by Micah Ellison; The Seattle School Boycott of 1966 by Brooke Clark; Tyree Scott and the United Construction Workers Association by Trevor Griffey; The Black Panther Party in Seattle, 1968-1970 by Kurt Schaefer; Organized Labor and Seattle's African American Community: 1916-1920 by Jon Wright; and Race and Civil Rights in the Washington State Communist Party: the 1930s and the 1940s by Shelley Pinckney. |