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On this day, the British Empire passed the 1765 Stamp Act and a formative strike began on the Tacoma docks in 1886. In 1965, Bob Dylan released a new album, shocking his folk fans with an electric sound.
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In August, the library invited the public to share their stories about the Salishan neighborhood in Tacoma. Salishan was one of the first intentionally integrated neighborhoods in the city and is one of the most diverse.
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One image of a Black laborer in a lumber yard from 1940. A group photo from a unity event between Japanese-American soldiers and white soldiers at Fort Lewis taken two months before the Pearl Harbor attacks. These are some of the images surfaced by a new digital archive project in Tacoma.
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Through a digital oral history exhibit and a series of events, University of Puget Sound professor Andrew Gomez is looking at how Tacoma’s past racial…
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On May 6, 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. The 1882 law barred all skilled and unskilled Chinese laborers from entering the country.The…