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| Title | Stokely Carmichael speaking at Garfield High School, Seattle, 1967 |
| Photographer | Potts, Dave
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1967 |
| Caption | In a speech to an overflow crowd at Garfield High School, Black Power leader Stokely Carmichael proclaimed "it's a new day" for African Americans, who should assert themselves and no longer be ashamed of their color. About 20% of the listeners were white and many joined in cheering the speaker as he jabbed White America.
Controversy preceded the event with the American Civil Liberties Union helping win the battle with the Seattle School Board for Carmichael's right to use Garfield as a venue. Earlier in the day Carmichael spoke to a crowd of 3, 000 students at Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington. He clarified the "white press" misinterpretation of "Black Power." "No one is talking about the blacks taking over the country, but about taking over our own communities." |
| Notes | Stokely Carmichael also known as Kwame Ture and as Kwame Toure [note from the Library of Congress Authority File].
Text on button in image: Keep the [Faith] Baby.
Handwritten on sleeve: Carmichael, Stokeley [sic]; Negro leader speaks at Garfield High School.
Caption information source: P-I exhibit.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: April 20, 1967. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle; Public speaking--Washington (State)--Seattle; Black power--Washington (State)--Seattle; Civil rights leaders--Washington (State)--Seattle; Black Panther Party--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sound equipment & supplies--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Carmichael, Stokely |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Central District (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.21041 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 35 mm |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
