On October 8, 1969, 3,000 white construction workers rally in downtown Seattle to protest requirements for more minority training and hiring imposed by local governments and by the University of Washington.
White construction workers rally in Seattle against minority hiring and training on October 8, 1969.
- By Alan J. Stein
- Posted 1/01/2000
- HistoryLink.org Essay 1303
Sources: Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 275.
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