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The city is second-last in terms of households with children, with only 19. Helping to lead the demonstrations that preserved the International District, he was co-founder of the Seattle monthly, Asian Family Affair.

Although the 2000 census shows only 5. This is quite disconcerting to me. During the day, incoming commuters increase Seattle's population by over 160,000 people.

Asian Americans and Seattle's Civil Rights History - Tent Cities are largely self-policing, with strict regulations, such as no alcohol, no drugs, and segregated areas for families, men, and women. In the late 1960s, inspired by the and student , these traditional coalitions were formalized as the Asian Coalition for Equality, the Oriental Student Movement, and the Asian American Student Coalition.

Film: This 19 minute video explores a century of Asian American community building and civil rights activism in Seattle. It was created for the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project by Shaun Scott. Activist Oral Histories Click to learn more about these activists and watch video excerpts of their oral history interviews. Born in Seattle's Chinatown, Ron Chew attended the University of Washington in the early 1970s, establishing there his interest in journalism. Since 1991 he has served as Executive Director of the Wing Luke Asian Museum. David Della grew up in Seattle and became active in the Alaska Cannery Workers Association ACWA in the 1970s. He assumed leadership positions in ILWU Local 37 in the 1980s. A former director of the State Commission on Asian and Pacific American Affairs, he was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2003. Sister of assassinated union leader Silme Domingo, Cindy Domingo was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos KDP in the 1970s. In the 1980s, she headed the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, waging a successful nine year long campaign that proved that the Marcos regime was complicit in the murders. Born in Wapato, Washington in the 1950s, like many Filipino Americans, Rich Gurtiza went to work in the Alaska canneries. In the 1970s and 1980s he was active in the Alaska Cannery Workers Association and the campaign to reform Local 37, the union of cannery workers. Born in Seattle, Phil Hayasaka spent WWII in an internment camp. In the 1950s and 1960s he served as President of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League, President of the Jackson Street Community Council, and became the first Director of the Seattle Human Rights Commission, where he worked to create and enforce civil rights legislation. Helping to lead the demonstrations that preserved the International District, he was co-founder of the Seattle monthly, Asian Family Affair. Born in Seattle, Chuck Kato spent WW2 in the Minadoka internment camp. He later attended UW and earned an engineering degree. Mike Lowry was born in St. John, Washington in 1939. Elected to Congress in 1978, he served until 1989. In 1992 he became Governor of the state of Washington, serving until 1996. This interview focuses on Lowry's work to pass a federal law providing redress and compensation to Japanese Americans who had been interned during World War II. Congressman Lowry sponsored the 1988 compensation Act. Born in Minidoka Internment Camp, Larry Matsuda grew up in Seattle's International District and attended the UW. An activist in the Asian American student movement of the late 1960s, an educator who taught one of the first courses in Asian American history in Washington State, he has also been active in the JACL. Born in Florida, Charles Smith moved to Seattle in 1955 to attend law school at UW. Active in African American civil rights efforts, he also became a member of the Japanese American Citizens League. He served as Dean of the UW Law School and In 1988 became the first African American to serve on the Washington State Supreme Court. Alan Sugiyama was a leader in the Asian youth movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. The first Filipina American elected to a state legislature in the continental U. After a decade of labor activism, she turned to electoral politics and served in the legislature for 13 years. Born in Seattle, Michael Woo attended UW in the 1960s. Beginning in 1970 he was an organizer for the United Construction Workers Association, fighting to integrate the construction trades. In 1973 he co-founded the Alaska Cannery Workers Association. Today he is the Director of LELO which carries on the legacy of those pioneering organizations. Rizal, the martyred Filipino patriot and novelist. The report includes images and documents, including a full reproduction of the book Rizal Park: Symbol of Filipino Identity. This report details his life and assesses his role in the fight to achieve full citizenship. This essay examines first the campaigns to restrict land rights and then efforts to repeal Alien Land Laws in the 1950s ad 1960s. Only 17 years old when he testified, James Sakamoto would later help start the Japanese American Citizens League and publish the Japanese American Courier. Major General Henry C. Pratt announced that the federal government would officially end the exclusion order that prevented Japanese and Japanese-Americans from returning to the West Coast. This essays explores both sides of the resettlement debate in Seattle. This essay narrates the dramatic early years of CWFLU which much later became Local 37 of the ILWU. The union was still in its infancy when two of the founders, President Virgil Duyungan and secretary Aurelio Simon, were murdered, but their deaths only solidified the members determination to make their organization survive and succeed. This essay explores the critical middle period as the union negotiated the 1940s and 1950s, dealing with deportation threats, internal turmoil, but also consolidating and becoming a critical resource for Filipino-American communities on the West Coast. This paper looks at his early career as a student and journalist after coming to the US from the Phillipines in 1924. When anti-miscegenation bills were introduced in both the 1935 and 1937 sessions of the Washington State Legislature, an effective and well-organized coalition led by the African American, Filipino, and Labor communities mobilized against the measure. This essay looks at the early years of the newspaper. General national and international news, local society news, poetry, wit and humor sections, and numerous advertisements were also a part of the paper.

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