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1960s
Key Civil Rights Activists
Started the first black church |
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1950s
Served in Senate at the age of 32
Outspoken against the Vietnam War, ok with handing over rights of the Panama Canal and investigated CIA misdeeds |
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1950s
Democratic Senator
Served 6 terms in the U.S. senate and passed many consumer and environmental bills for the state of WA |
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1930s and 40s
Famous song writer
Woody traveled all throughout the Northwest writing songs and singing on street corners and labor camps. He is most famous for writing roll on columbia! |
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1960s
Civil Rights Movement group
Greatly influenced housing and other issues of segregation in the PNW |
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One of the most successful and powerful politicians in the PNW
Served alongside Magnuson in fighting for environmental protection of the PNW and the creation of parks |
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Washington Politician
Served as governor for 3 terms and in the Senate
Deemed as one of the best governors of the 20th century
Worked hard on tax reform and environmental and social issues |
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1970s
Idaho Governor
Fought for environmental rights in Idaho such as preserving forests |
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1960s-1990s
Senior member of Senate from Oregon
Loop hole conservatism where he used Republican measures to obtain liberal goals such as women groups, organized labor and environmentalists. |
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1940s
Republican legislator from Spokane who served on term in the House of Reps
Famous for his work on the Canwell Committee which sought out "Un-American" activities. Got 3 UW professors fired for being too communist |
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1940s
Hanford nuclear facility in eastern Wa released nuclear material into the air to see what affect it would have on the environment and people. Hundreds of people got sick and infant mortality rate in the surrounding counties increased 160 percent |
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1974
Judge boldt passed fishing law which granted Indian tribes 50 percent of the annual catch
White fishermen got pissed |
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1960s
Pastor of Mt. Zion baptist the largest black church with 2500 members
Worked alongside CORE for civil rights |
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| Extremely old (100+ yrs old) and untouched forests which are great for lumber companies but if they are cut down then animals who make them their home such as the spotted owl will become extinct |
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| Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) |
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Started in the 1950s
A way to bring "clean" power to homes.
Began building nuclear plants.
Combined utility services like Seattle City Light to try and solf the electric problem |
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1940s
Japanese man who fought internment
Believed japanese internment to be unconstitutional be was arrested and put in prison. He took his case to the supreme court where it wasn't rejected until the 1980s |
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1948
The city of Vanport was a large housing development for shipyard workers during WWII which was build below the level of the columbia river. Extremely flooding broke one of the dikes and destroyed the town within an hour. This sent many african americans into the city of Portland. |
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Late 1900s
Washington state's highest ranking member of congress and speaker of the house of representatives |
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1941
One of the largest dams in the country
Part of the columbian basin project to create energy and distribute water to crops. the damn has cause environmental issues with salmon but was important during WWII industrialization |
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1974
A world of tomorrow environmental theme brought millions of people to Spokane.
The fair drastically transformed downtown spokane and created the downtown park around the river as well as helped clean up the spokane river |
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| Role that WWII played in shaping the economy as well as racial dynamics |
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Brought the Kaiser shipyards to portland and Boeing to Seattle.
These industries required alot of labor which brought thousands of African americans to the region.
Thousands of African americans lived in Vanport then were integrated into Portland after the flood |
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| Environment at risk essay |
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Early settlers thought of PNW of and endless natural resource.
Developement vs conservation
Forests
Salmon
Pollution from mills into puget sound
Mining deposits polluting lake cour d lane
White Spotted owl
Nuclear clean up
Air pollution from mills
Pollution in Lake WA |
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| Hinterland vs Trendsetter essay |
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Hinterland by location
Look at a map of the US. lights all over the east then nothing then us!
cascades and other mountain regions seperate us from the rest of the country
Trend setter:
Grunge music
"histper culture"
Coffee (starbucks)
Technology (microsoft)
Legalization of weed and gay marriage
Environmental laws |
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Blacks were given menial jobs (janitors, maids, etc)
NEGOTIATIONS:
Issues with Safeway not hiring enough blacks or promoting them to higher positions
Don't buy where you can't work protest/boycott
CORE did surveys and proved that Safeway was not hiring blacks based on discrimination
DEMONSTRATIONS
non violent direct actions
Protests
Going into grocery stores and filling up carts and refusing to pay
responsible and respectful protesting |
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