Black Lives Matter protest march
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- 2020
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Black Lives Matter protesters marching on Highway 705. June 5th, 2020
Black Lives Matter protest march
Part of Dear Tacoma Project Collection
Black Lives Matter protesters marching on Highway 705. June 5th, 2020
Photograph of Shelby Weldon Smith and Margery
Part of Stallcup-Smith Family Papers
A photograph of Shelby Weldon Smith and Margery taken on September 11th, 1920.
Part of Stallcup-Smith Family Papers
This photograph of Mary Pindell Shelby and Elizabeth Kinkead Shelby was taken in the book-lined living room of Stallcup's new home at 317 South G St. in Tacoma, Washington across from Wright Park
Murray Morgan with Group at Hackney's in New Jersey
Part of Murray Morgan Papers
"A WWI American Tableau at American Lake"
Part of Murray Morgan Papers
Murray Morgan in 11th Street Bridge Control Tower
Part of Murray Morgan Papers
Murray Morgan control tower of the 11th street lift bridge. Morgan has previously worked as a bridgetender here. The bridge would later be renamed in his honor as the Murray Morgan Bridge.
Ford, Melissa and Mandeville, Dan
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Dan Mandeville holds a sign reading, "Women's Rights Human Rights," with Melissa Ford standing beside him.
"I just feel like we’re in scary times right now where a lot of white men are controlling the narrative and, um, I’m happy to be here today to kind of speak up" - Melissa Ford
"And a lot of people, even, even with current restrictions being passed people don’t even know that they’ve happened in their state and they’re not finding out until they go to go for treatment and find out “Oh, you’re not eligible because of this law that’s been passed.” And people just, people just don’t know what’s been going on and I don’t know, I think the more – we just need to speak up and make sure that people know what’s happening." - Dan Mandeville
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Kels Howerton holds a sign reading, "Safe, accessible abortions for all genders."
"I think it’s also important to remember that all genders can have abortions and while it does primarily affect women, um, to include trans people and non-binary people in that. I personally use they/them pronouns and I think it’s really important to remember how many people are affected. I love so many people who have gotten abortions, and it would have drastically changed their life if they were forced into pregnancy. So I think I’m here just because I want us to be a community that takes care of one another and um, fights for one another, so that we can all be freed."
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Kat Wood holding a sign reading, "Fundamental human rights should NOT depend on your zip code!" with an LGBTQ pride flag sticker and a map of the United States with x-marks over states that restrict or outlaw abortion access.
Interviewer: What brings you here today?
"Oh, so much anger and so much sadness. Um, Roe has been around my entire life and I can’t believe we’re fighting the fights of our grandmothers again and again and again… and trans people and non-binary people are especially gonna be hurt by these laws. I mean, really, all people who need abortion care and need health care deserve to be able to have that equitably and safely and with dignity and I can’t believe we’re having to fight this again."
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Kat Moulton holds a sign reading "Expand abortion access."
Declined to comment.
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Serena Jouers holds her small dog and a sign reading, "If I wanted the government in my uterus I'd fuck a politician."
"I feel like I need to do what I can to help spread the message and to help show that we will stand up for our rights and not let this get overturned and that there’s people out here, everywhere, that want – that feel passionately about it."
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Autumn Fiore holds a sign reading, "If your activism isn't intersectional, then who is it for?"
"Overturning Roe v. Wade is much more than just taking away a person’s bodily autonomy, it could be a slippery slope into other landmark Supreme Court decisions that protect our rights to privacy, bodily autonomy, and just, our choices to do what we would like. Uh, and so I wanna take a stand and make sure that doesn’t happen. Um, the government doesn’t have a right to dictate who we choose to marry, whether we choose to keep a pregnancy, none of it. Um, and I know that there worst fear is us standing up for our rights, but, that doesn’t mean that we just let them do whatever they want."
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Kip Howell holds a sign reading, "Forced birth in a country with the highest [maternal] mortality rate, no paid maternity, no universal subsidized childcare, no continued birth parent care, and frequently inaccessible mental health care. - Tocarra Mallard."
"I feel that because they have decided this is not, like, a right under the constitution, this gives way for a lot of other issues. Especially, since they say, like, this is not, like constitutionally worth it for privacy specifically. Um, it gives way for them to attack things like gay marriage rights and many other things. So, I feel that it’s my civic duty to come here and protest."
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Carolyn Treleven holds a sign reading, "This doesn't stop abortions... it stops SAFE abortions."
Interviewer: What brings you here today?
"Outrage. Frustration. Exhaustion... this is for everybody that has a fundamental right to make decisions about their own medical care."
Runbeck, Jan RN and Mowat, Mike
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Jan Runbeck, RN and Mike Mowat hold sign, made by Planned Parenthood, together reading "Protect safe, legal abortion."
"My aunt was orphaned uh, at about six months of age when her mother, uh, had, and we don’t know if it was self-induced abortion or if she went to a, uh, alley abortionist, was found dead on the kitchen floor in a puddle of blood from the fact that she knew she had more children than the family could support. So, uh, that’s the personal story, but I’m also a public health nurse and demographically, when women have access to abortion, they have better long-term outcomes, society has better outcomes as far as literacy rate, poverty rates, health rates, and all that. So, from a public health long-term perspective, it’s better for society, and individually, um, my aunt would have had a much better life, had she had a mother." - Jan Runbeck, RN
"I’m just generally opposed to taking advantage of people or keeping people down, I mean there’s a huge movement all over the world and all through history of keeping uh people down, so we have low wages, people without rights, so even in our own constitution, which they use as a preface for-for overturning Roe vs. Wade, women had no rights at that time. So if they can take away those particular rights, they can take away all the rest of them." - Mike Mowat
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Katt Merilo hold a sign reading "Pregnant, pro-choice, + pissed off." The back of her sign, unpictured, reads, "Here for my unborn's rights - to protect her body + plan her own future."
"I am here because of abortion rights affects all people, not just women, not just cis women, but women of color, trans women. And, abortion rights are very important for all of us to be able to plan our futures, and our families, and keep ourselves safe. I’m also nine months pregnant, I’m due on Monday... It's a girl."
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Brian Schmidt, carrying a child on his back, holds a sign reading, "The majority draft opinion does not represent the majority of Americans!"
"It’s [laughs] it’s uh not fair that a small percentage of people can dictate the rights of a large, I mean, millions of people."
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Aja Fulani pictured in black tactical gear.
"We’ve seen the reality of what happens to people who want to make their voices heard, call for justice whether it be peacefully or otherwise, we have seen that when that runs counter to what the state’s interests are, they are silenced one way or another. And our presence is hopefully at least a small deterrent if nothing else. We’re a symbol of security to the people that are here to make them feel like they can engage with their community and be heard without fear of retribution."
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Melody Hennigh holds a sign reading "Protect safe, legal abortions."
"As I explained to my five-year-old, we are sticking up to bullies."
Part of Charles Carson Papers
Part of Charles Carson Papers
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Charles Carson Photo with Award
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Part of Charles Carson Papers
Charles Carson Photo with Others
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Charles Carson Volunteering at Food Bank 1991
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Part of Charles Carson Papers