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By the 1970s, Central District was a largely an African-American neighborhood and the center of the civil rights movement in Seattle. In 1970, Black people made up nearly 80 percent of the neighborhood's population. [12] However, the neighborhood declined with increased rates of poverty and crime over the following two decades. In the early ...
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295973456. Taylor, Quintard (Winter 1995). "The Civil Rights Movement in the American West: Black Protest in Seattle, 1960—1970". The Journal of Negro History. 80 (1): 1– 14. doi:10.2307/2717703.
Quite likely, Seattle evaded the fate of Detroit through being a port city with a large number of highly educated, skilled workers. Seattle industry did slightly better than the national average during the rest of the 1970s; nonetheless the boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s had been brought to a decisive end.
In 2001 the central city was the site of rioting, mixed with partying and racially motivated violence against European Americans in the Seattle Mardi Gras riot. Seattle along with other west coast cities experienced politically inspired confrontations and violence during the May Day marches in 2015. [35]
Pages in category "1970s in Seattle" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
It becomes Seattle's tallest building for 16 years. [4] 1970 – Seattle Marathon, and negative income tax program [46] begin. 1971 Mayor's Arts Festival begins (later known as Bumbershoot). Starbucks in business. [47] 1972 Pacific Northwest Dance Association established. Intiman Theatre Festival begins.
The People's Wall on 20th Avenue just south of Spruce Street in the Central District / Squire Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S., is a mural that was commissioned in 1969 by the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and painted in 1970 by artist Dion Henderson.
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 ...