Topic: People's Histories
Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Convention Center, ...
A lawyer by trade, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) was a civic activist who helped transform Seattle and King County with his work to clean up Lake Washington, create Metro, and push for passage of Fo...
A lawyer by trade, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) was a civic activist who helped transform Seattle and King County with his work to clean up Lake Washington, create Metro, and push for passage of Fo...
Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Conventio...
Ida Nakauchi was born in 1918 in rural King County, the daughter of Japanese immigrant tenant farmers with eight children who led a hard-scrabble life farming vegetables. When Ida finished high s...
In the excerpt from his memoirs, famed Seattle civic activist Jim Ellis (1921-2019) writes about friend and civic leader Jack Henry and his wife Jean. As Ellis writes, "Jack had been a friend since my...
Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Convention Center, ...
Among his many achievements as a civic activist, Seattle attorney Jim Ellis (1921-2019) led the campaign to clean up Lake Washington, pushed for development of the Washington State Conventio...
A lawyer by trade, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) was a civic activist who helped transform Seattle and King County with his work to clean up Lake Washington, create Metro, and push for passage of Fo...
Jim Ellis left an extraordinary legacy of civic achievement when he died in 2019 at age 98. Perhaps best remembered for his successful efforts to clean up Lake Washington, Ellis also was instrumental ...
Jim Ellis left an extraordinary legacy of civic achievement when he died in 2019 at age 98. Perhaps best remembered for his successful efforts to clean up Lake Washington, Ellis also was instrumental ...
Along with Seattle Mayor Dorm Braman, Jim Ellis (1921-2019) worked closely with Washington Sen. Warren Magnuson (1905-1989) to secure federal funding for Seattle and King County transportation project...