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Miss Black Washington 2009
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Congratulations “Tiana Townsell"
MISS BLACK WASHINGTON USA 2009
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1852: Seattle's first black resident arrived.
1874: Some white parents complained, and one withdrew his children, when a black student enrolled at the University of Washington
1886: Seattle's first black church, the Jones Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, began meeting.
1916: A bitter waterfront strike opened new opportunities for black male workers
1918: Seattle's now defunct Broadway High School on Capitol Hill had an all-black backfield on the football team.
1940: 56 percent of Seattle's black men worked as servants, waiters or janitors, and 84 percent of black women worked as domestics
1943: Harborview Hospital hired its first black nurse
1944: Several dozen black soldiers at Fort Lawton rioted over preferential treatment of Italian prisoners of war, attacking the barracks of the POWs. A prisoner was found dead nearby, hanging from some wires. In court martial proceedings, 23 black soldiers were convicted on a variety of charges, including one for the death of the Italian, although the death remains a mystery
1945: Seattle Transit hired its first black bus driver, Thomas J. Allen, though he quit four months later after being bombarded by racial insults
1947:Seattle Public Schools hired Thelma Dewitty to join Cooper Elementary as the district's first black teacher after intervention by civil rights groups.
1948: The state Supreme Court outlawed the restrictive housing covenants that had locked most blacks into the city's Central District
1950: African Americans became the city's largest minority population for the first time as the result of a decade of major migration
1952: The city failed in an attempt to ban an appearance by Paul Robeson, the outspoken black singer, actor and socialist activist, but the event at Civic Auditorium was lightly attended because the city's two daily newspapers refused to advertise it
1961: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first - and only - Seattle appearance in November, when he delivered several speeches at the University of Washington, Eagles Auditorium and other venues
1961: The Seattle Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched a campaign to pressure The Bon Marché, Nordstrom and other stores to hire blacks.
1963: Seattle's first sit-in occurred when a racially mixed group of young protesters seeking a citywide open-housing ordinance took over the office of Mayor Gordon Clinton for 24 hours
1964: Only 2 percent of the city's 62,000 downtown employees were black, and a third of those were janitors
1968: A Black Student Union staged a sit-in at the office of University of Washington President Charles Odegaard to demand more minority recruitment and funding. One outcome was the creation of a Black Studies curriculum
1970: The "Seattle Medium", an African American newspaper that serves Seattle, Washington is founded in January.
1975: Dorothy Hollingsworth became the first black woman to serve on a school board in Washington with her election to the Seattle School Board.
1978: The first black was admitted to the exclusive Rainier Club
1978: Seattle becomes the largest city in the country to desegregate schools without a court order
1989: Norm Rice becomes Seattle's first black mayor.
1996: The Seattle School Board voted unanimously to end mandatory busing
2003: Ron Ward becomes the first black president in the 114-year history of the Washington State Bar Association
2008: The Northwest African American Museum " A Project shaped by many hands"
is Opened
2009: February 28th 2009
Tiana Townsell wins crown of MISS BLACK WASHINGTON 2009!! |
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