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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.
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Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 275.
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