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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...
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- Aeronautical Workers Union (Seattle, Wash.)
- African American Communists
- African American Construction Workers
- African American Labor Leaders
- African American Labor Union Members
- African American Political Activists
- African American Stevedores
- African American Women
- African American Women Civil Rights Workers
- African American Women Employees
- African Americans
- Agricultural Laborers
- Aircraft Industry
- Alaska
- Alien Labor
- Black Militant Organizations
- Black Nationalism
- Black Panther Party
- Black Power
- Black Student Union (University Of Washington)
- Boeing Aircraft Company
- Boycotts
- California
- Canned Foods Industry
- Cannery Workers
- Cannery Workers And Farm Laborers Union. Local 7 (Seattle, Wash.)
- Centro De La Raza (Seattle, Wash.)
- Chicano Movement
- Christian Friends For Racial Equality
- Christians
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Communist Party Of The United States Of America (Wash.)
- Community Relations
- Complaints Against
- Concentration Camps
- Construction Workers
- Detention Of Persons
- Discrimination
- Electric Industry Workers
- Electric Utilities
- Electrical Workers Minority Caucus (Seattle, Wash.)
- Electricians
- Employees
- Evacuation And Relocation, 1942 1945
- Filipino Americans
- Filipino Forum (Seattle, Wash.)
- Filipino Students
- Fort Lawton (Seattle, Wash.)
- Government
- Grape Strike, Calif., 1965 1970
- Hispanic Americans
- History
- Immigrants
- Indian Women
- Indians Of North America
- International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers. Local 46 (Seattle, Wash.)
- International Longshore And Warehouse Union
- International Longshoremen's And Warehousemen's Union. Local 37 (Seattle, Wash.)
- Interracial Marriage
- Japanese
- Japanese American Citizens' League. Seattle Chapter
- Japanese Americans
- Journalists
- King County (Wash.)
- Labor
- Labor Disputes
- Labor Journalism
- Labor Literature
- Labor Movement
- Labor Unions
- Latin Americans
- Law And Legislation
- Liability (Law)
- Machinists
- Marriage Law
- Mexican American Students
- Mexican Americans
- Newspapers
- Police
- Police Brutality
- Police Misconduct
- Political Activists
- Political Activity
- Politics And Government
- Press Coverage
- Press, Labor
- Private Schools
- Propaganda, Anti Japanese
- Public Utilities
- Quakers
- Race Relations
- Racial Discrimination
- Reparations
- Reparations For Historical Injustices
- Resettlement
- School Integration
- Seattle
- Seattle (Wash.)
- Seattle City Light
- Segregation
- Segregation In Education
- Segregationists
- Sexism
- Siege, 1970
- Sieges
- Social Justice
- Social Movements
- Stevedores
- Training Of
- Training Programs
- United Construction Workers Association
- United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
- United Indians Of All Tribes Foundation (U.S.)
- United Mexican American Students (Seattle, Wash.)
- United States
- United States Commission On Civil Rights
- Universities
- University Of Washington
- Vineyard Laborers
- Washington (State)
- Women
- Women Electric Industry Workers
- Women Labor Union Members
- World War, 1939 1945