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Hutchen R. Hutchins (1903-1990)

Hutchen R. Hutchins, born on June 30, 1903, was part of a small but active cadre of African American Communists operating in the Pacific Northwest during the 1930's. Originally from the East Coast, Hutchins attended the Lenin School in Moscow in the late 1920's. In 1932 he was sent to Seattle by the Communist Party USA's Central Committee in New York to serve on a three-member District Executive Committee. That same year he helped organize one of the largest demonstrations of unemployed workers in the state's history. Hutchins reportedly clashed with Party members in the Northwest who, considered him overbearing and doctrinaire. In 1933 he was replaced, along with the other two members of the Executive Committee, by a new Executive Secretary. Hutchins stayed in Seattle and retained a Marxist political orientation, although it is unclear whether he remained an official member of the Communist Party. Throughout the latter half of the 1930s he served as president of ...

Victor Moore (born August 23, 1943)

Victor holds a  10th Degree   Black Belt  in  Karate   and was one of the late  Robert Trias ' Chief instructors of the  Shuri-ryÅ«   Karate  system. Moore was one of the first ten original members of the  Trias International Society  and also studied and trained with  William J. Dometrich  in the style of  Chito-ryu . Moore has studied martial arts for over 50 years, and is a four-time world karate champion.    Moore began to travel with a handful of his students to several tournaments as far away as Canada. He later ventured out opening karate schools throughout the Cincinnati area and began traveling the Midwest and East Coast. Being successful in competition, he meets the father of  American Karate  Robert A. Trias.  Robert Trias  with his skills and ability took Moore under his wings. He continued to train with Trias at various tournaments and seminar...