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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.
The R.H. Thompson Expressway, planned to connect SR 520 with I-90 and SR 167 via the Central District, and the Bay Freeway, connecting I-5 with the Seattle Center via Mercer Street, were canceled by citizen referendums as part of nationwide freeway revolts.
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.
In 2001 the central city was the ... Another View: Seattle's Central District, 1910-1940." ... West: Black Protest in Seattle, 1960-1970." Journal ...
Fire Station No. 23 is a former fire station located in the Central District of Seattle, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It was remodeled as the Cherry Hill Community Center in 1970, [2] and served as the headquarters of Centerstone (formerly the Central Area Motivational Program, or CAMP). [3]
Vintage photos offer rare glimpse of Mumbai’s 1970s red-light district. Christy Choi, CNN. January 4, 2024 at 7:54 PM. ... From street children in Seattle to the patients of Ward 81 (the women ...
1970 – Seattle Marathon, and negative income tax program [46] ... "Prescriptive Plans for a Healthy Central Business District: Seattle Downtown Design, 1956–1966".