Ep. 1: Bella Taylor Cooper McKnight

In this episode of Long Shadows of Seattle, host Stellan Harris covers the history of Bella Taylor Cooper McKnight (1900-1982). McKnight's work with the NAACP, Harmon Foundation, Civic Unity Committee, and Christian Friends for Racial Equality helped push the fight for racial equality in Seattle forward.

Long Shadows of Seattle is a podcast project made in cooperation with the University of Washington. Sources from this episode are from the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections and Blackpast.org. The finding aid for the Bella Taylor Cooper McKnight Papers can be found here.

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