Preserving Martin Luther King County’s African American History

Organizations

Black Arts West
Central Area Civil Rights Committee
Central Area Committee for Peace and Improvement
Central Area School Council
Central Contractors Association
Christian Friends for Racial Equality

Colored Marine Employees Benevolent Association
Congress of Racial Equality, Seattle Chapter
Earl Whaley Band
Edythe Turnham Orchestra
Frances Ellen Harper Branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Jackson Street Community Council
King County Colored Republican Club
Negro Musicians Union
Northwest Enterprise
Operation Equity
Parents Involved
Seattle Civic Unity Committee
Seattle Royal Giants
Seattle School Boycott
Seattle Steelheads
Ubangi Blackhawks
United Black Front
United Construction Workers Association

Events

Berry Lawson Case
Booker T. Washington in Seattle
Drive for Equal Employment in Downtown Seattle (DEEDS)
Fort Lawton Riot
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007)
O’Meara v. The Washington State Board Against Discrimination (1961)
Seattle School Boycott (1966)

Places

Camp George Jordan

Perspectives Articles:

The Tie Breaker in Perspective
Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West
Gentrification, Integration or Displacement?: The Seattle Story
Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955
History of the Seattle Open Housing Campaign
The Blood of Entertainers: The Life and Times of Jimi Hendrix’s Paternal Grandparents

Primary Documents:

Hazel Dixon Manuscript (1937)
Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination (1949)
Washington (State) Omnibus Civil Rights Act of 1957
O’Meara v. The Washington State Board Against Discrimination (1961)
DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)
Washington State Initiative 200 (1998)
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle Central School District No. 1 (2007)

Bibliographies:

DeBarros, Paul, Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle (1993)
Hanawalt, Frank and Robert L. Williams, The History of Desegregation in Seattle Public Schools, 1954-1981 (1981)
Lowe, Turkiya L., The History of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Links Incorporated, 1955-2005 (2005)
Mumford, Esther Hall, Seattle’s Black Victorians, 1852-1901 (1980)
Mumford, Esther Hall, Seven Stars and Orion: Reflections of the Past [Oral history of black Seattleites] (1986)
Reed, Wilson E., The Politics of Community Policing: The Case of Seattle (1999)
Joan Singler, Jean Durning, BettyLou Valentine, Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity (2011)
Siqueland, Anne LaGrelius, Without a Court Order: The Desegregation of Seattle Schools (1981)
Taylor, Quintard, The Forging of A Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (1994)
Williams, DeCharlene, A History of Seattle’s Central Area, (1990)
Wilson, Lyle Kenai, Sunday Afternoons at Garfield Park: Seattle’s Black Baseball Teams, 1911-1951 (1997)