The Northwest African American Museum in Seattle’s old Colman School opens in 2008. The idea of an African American museum is proposed in 1981. Activists grow frustrated with the lack of progress and move into the vacant Central District school in 1985, living there for eight years. The Urban League redesigns the school to accommodate the museum on the bottom floor and 36 units of affordable housing on two upper floors.
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