Wife of publisher Horace Cayton Sr. This biographical essay uses her writings to provide a window into her personal life and to help clarify her dual commitments to her family and her community. Frank Jenkins was a second generation Seattle longshoreman and one of the first African Americans to hold leadership positions in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. This biography tells the story of a pioneer black union leader who helped promote civil rights activism in his union and in his community.
On February 19, , a group of Communists involved in the League of Struggle for Negro Rights decided that discrimination toward African Americans and Filipinos in Seattle must come to an end.
Led by a young, African American,Revels Cayton, the group entered a Seattle City Council meeting demanding laws that would make discrimination based on race illegal. This essay examines the activism of Revels Cayton, son of the prominent middle class black leaders Horace and Susie Cayton, brother of the influential sociologist Horace Cayton, Jr. When do we want it? Led by electrician Tyree Scott, workers used direct action to challenge institutional barriers to African American employment in Seattle.
In the process, they became pioneers in shaping the early national politics of affirmative action. This essay explores the first three years of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party from its founding by Black Student Union members in through the crisis negotiated by Mayor Wes Uhlman.
The essay is presented in three parts. Organized labor in Seattle was very active and was seen by many people as even radical, with the Seattle General Strike of being given for evidence. In relation to the African American community though, the labor movement was anything but radical.
Seattle unions were often racist and excluded Blacks from their ranks. At other times they voiced support for Blacks, but in actuality they did little to erase the color bar in unions. The CP was one of the first left groups to take up the issue of racism and oppression.
During the s, s, and s, the CP made important strides in the areas of union desegregation, public education about racial injustices, and legal support for civil rights activities. Founded in , the Afro American Journal was a consistent voice for Black Power and community control.
No issue was more important to the newspaper than education. Congressional hearings into actitivites of Black Panther Party The online encyclopedia of Washington State history has dozens of articles on African American historical topics. Here links…. Black Heritage Society of Washington State.
Valuable collections of photographs, documents, and oral histories. Part of the photographic collection can be viewed online at King County Snapshots. The Seattle Open Housing Campaign, Adams, John H. Gossett, Larry Larry Gossett grew up in Seattle's Central District and attended the University of Washington where he co-founded the Black Student Union and helped lead off-campus protests in the late s.
African American Cultural Heritage. African American heritage in Washington goes back to the territorial era, with the arrival of Black pioneers who settled in both rural and urban areas. In , George W. Rosemaling by Betty Edwards. Nordic Heritage. Back to Seattle's Cultural Heritage. The book examined the history and contributions of blacks in the entire Northwest. Because of the success of the exhibit and book, the NWBP also incorporated other successful chapters of its organization throughout the region, including those in Portland, Oregon and Spokane, Washington.
As part of its community outreach projects in Seattle, the NWBP gave college scholarships to deserving African American high school students. Robert Gary, O. Mitchell, and Delores Booker, organized the first annual black college tour in The tour was designed to introduce high school seniors to campus communities and the college enrollment process in Historically Black Colleges and Universities HCBUs.
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