CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGNS IN WASHINGTON STATE: ORAL HISTORIES, PAPERS & DOCUMENTS

The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project is an EXCELLENT website for examining the contexts, texts, and legal sources from impacted communities, community activists, and the historical record on issues related to CIVIL RIGHTS (as opposed to constitutionalist rights=privileges based upon ideologies of race, class, gender, sexuality, religious preferences, and geographical continents of origin). Here you will find oral histories, original key documents, papers, and much more. For example, see Dorothy Hollingsworth, a social worker. Notice that she brought forth aspects of the anti-hunger campaigns of the Black Panthers, that the U.S. government appropriated as the Head Start Program. When we trace the history of that program, we are guided to the Black Panthers, migrant workers, and Indigenous peoples who are the originators of the U.S.' first urban anti-hunger brigades.