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27 wrz 2022 · Housing discrimination and racist property covenants in other neighborhoods stymied options for Black families. The Central District, and Garfield, became home to most of Seattle’s growing Black population. Civil Rights Champions. In its early decades, the school was held up as a model for diversity.
On the surface, the city of Seattle seems to celebrate diversity, but Seattle's Garfield High School tells a different story. From the effects of historic housing discrimination, to the...
2 kwi 2024 · Critics argue that because the HCC didn’t match the district’s diversity, the program was irredeemably racist and needed to be dismantled. But parents, including those who are black, Asian and...
22 sie 2017 · Garfield High School in Seattle's historically black, and now gentrifying, Central District. Click to see the statement student actors wrote about cultural appropriation in their...
31 lip 2020 · Elmer Dixon helped start the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in 1967 — it was the first such union on the West Coast.
16 cze 2017 · The young woman was among three Seattle high school seniors honored Thursday with the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award — $1,000 and a sleek trophy for the work they’ve done to...
29 paź 2013 · The school has changed greatly over the decades, from a racial make-up that was about 50 percent African American after World War II to a diverse mix that's 38 percent white, 30 percent black,...
