Category: History

“Some believe Seattle is different . . .”

Jeff Stevens remembers Tyree Scott, Seattle’s late, great labor and civil rights leader.

Jeff Stevens tells the inspiring tale of one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in radical Seattle history.

Jeff Stevens tells the story of the night punk rock and DIY culture simultaneously arrived in Seattle.

Jeff Stevens tells the tragicomic tale of how a radical student protest in Vietnam War-era Seattle was hijacked by a swarm of angry bees. No, this is not an urban legend.

Seattle’s University District has long been known as a locus for student-led protests. Jeff Stevens documents he first such major protest event in the U District.

Seattle has a long history of excellent local alternative newspapers. Jeff Stevens remembers Helix, our city’s late-1960s countercultural oracle.

Before there was “the year punk broke,” there was the night when “punks flipped the Bird.” Jeff Stevens tells the brazen story of the Bird, Seattle’s first punk club.

Jeff Stevens tells the tale of how Asian-American youth in early-1970s Seattle defied the myth of “the quiet Asian.”

The surge of assassinations of leaders of the civil rights and black liberation movements in the late 1960s cast a wide enough net across the United States that it was bound to reach Seattle eventually. It did so on the date in focus here, when Edwin T. Pratt was shot to death in the doorway of his home on a snowy Sunday night.