On July 15, 1968, Seattle is awarded $2.3 million in Emergency Employment Program funds to create 1,800 new jobs, chiefly for minority youth.
Emergency Employment Program awards Seattle $2.3 million on July 15, 1968.
- By Alan J. Stein
- Posted 1/01/2000
- HistoryLink.org Essay 1523
Sources:
Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 257.
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