Randolph Warren “Randy” Carter (1913-1970) moved to Seattle with his wife Willhemina in 1952, where he became the Community Relations Secretary of the Urban League. In 1961, he served as Executive Secretary of the State Board against Discrimination before working for Catholic Community Services of Western Washington, focusing on African American youth in the Central District. In 1971, Catholic Community Services of Western Washington renamed its 52-year-old family and learning...

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Catholic Housing Services provides 50 affordable apartments for families experiencing homelessness, along with on-site services including social workers, financial planning, and addiction recovery. Opened in 2011, the site is home to the Village Spirit Center for Community Change and Healing, a housing, services, and community economic development initiative that works for the collective well-being of the Black community across Western Washington.

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The Seattle Vocational Institute (SVI) building was constructed in 1966 and later renovated and expanded in 1982. Originally known as the Seattle Opportunity Industrialization Center, the SVI was born when African American community members advocated for federal money from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Programs to establish an institution to promote educational training and employment. The building has long been a center for vocational training, employment, and community advancement...

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Dr. Blanche Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in Washington State. After arriving in Seattle in 1956, she began her pediatric practice and ultimately became the first medical director of the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic. A trailblazer for pediatrics in the Central Area, she lived out her motto “quality care with dignity.” In 1991, this park was renamed in her honor.

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Edwin T. Pratt (1930-1969) came to Seattle in 1956 with his wife Bettye Jean Williams to work as the Community Relations Secretary for the Seattle Urban League. He became its Executive Director in 1960 and led civil rights campaigns against housing discrimination, school segregation, employment bias, and police brutality. He was assassinated at the front door of his home in Shoreline on January 26, 1969. In 1966, the land was...

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Built in 1915, this building was formerly the Jewish Synagogue of Chevra Biku Cholim. It became the Yesler-Atlantic Community Center in 1972 under the Model Cities Program and was renamed in 1973 for Harlem Renaissance poet, playwright, and author Langston Hughes. The vision of this historic Seattle landmark is to cultivate and showcase Black brilliance in the community.

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Pharmacist George Tokuda opened Tokuda Drugs in 1935, and the establishment quickly became a fixture of Seattle’s Central District community. However, during World War II, he was one of thousands rounded up and sent to the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho. During internment in 1942, he met his future wife Tama, a gifted performer and storyteller. The two restarted the drugstore after the war, moving to different locations on Yesler...

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Redevelopment of Bryant Manor will provide affordable apartments for low-income families in the Central District. The project is a partnership between FAME Housing Association, Black Community Impact Alliance, and Africatown. It will include an early learning/day care center and small business retail space.

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Dion Henderson painted “The People’s Wall” outside of the Seattle Black Panther Party’s second office in 1970. After Seattle police raided the group’s previous headquarters searching for an allegedly stolen typewriter, the Black Panthers moved their office into this new house, which the mural bordered. The house also served as a medical clinic.

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Created in 1970 and named after one of its original founders, the Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center's services were originally overseen and developed by the Seattle Black Panther Party, whose “Survival Programs Pending the Revolution” included creating a well-baby clinic and sickle cell anemia testing. At its start, the clinic was known as the Sidney Miller Free Medical Clinic, in honor of a fallen Black Panther Party comrade. It was...

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Born in Arkansas in 1920, Odessa Brown was a community organizer during the Civil Rights era, who fought to bring quality healthcare with dignity to children in the Central District. When she died of leukemia in 1969, a new children’s clinic was named in her honor. In 1994, the clinic—a satellite of Seattle Children’s Hospital—became a partner in the Central Area Health Care Center with the Carolyn Downs Family Medical...

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On June 12, 2020, the City of Seattle announced that it would transfer the Fire Station 6 property to community ownership, potentially acquiescing to an Africatown-led redevelopment plan more than seven years in the making. In response to the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests and rallies throughout Seattle, the King County Equity Now coalition included Fire Station No. 6 in a list of six...

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