The Northwest African American Museum is a museum in Seattle, Washington's historically African-American Central District neighborhood. The museum aims to present and preserve the connections between
Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) in 2008
Opening of exhibit "Tacoma's Civil Rights Struggle: African Americans Leading the Way" (February 4, 2009).
NAAM in 2018
Museum entrance, photographed on NAAM's second day of operation, March 2008.
George Bush (pioneer)
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George Bush was an American settler and one of the first African-American non-Amerindian settlers of the Pacific Northwest.
Northwest African American Museum
…acclaimed African American artists who made their homes in Seattle. Among the works in the show were Lawrence's series of five panels on the life of George Washington Bush, Washington State's first African American settler, and Washington's work from 1956 entitled "The Young Queen of Ethiopia," carved from Mexican volcanic…
Sketch of George W. Bush by Sam Patrick, 1969. Courtesy Henderson House Museum.
Gravestone of George Bush
George Bush butternut tree
Monument to Bush family