[Opinion] The elusive search for Seattle’s early Black history

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The elusive search for Seattle’s early Black history

In a photograph dated 1916, a young woman and pianist named Gertrude Harvey Wright reads in her Seattle bedroom. She sits to the left of center in the photograph, her hair in a bun, her gaze cast downward onto the book in her lap. Various items — a phonograph, a dresser, a mirror, a sports banner and shelves — inhabit the rest of the picture. The walls are decorated with photo portraits of herself, loved ones and her husband, George Wright. It’s…