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By July 1, 1968, the number of blacks serving in the Seattle Fire Department had risen to 16, up from one (future Chief Claude Harris) a year earlier.

Sources:

Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 257.

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