In 1899, Local Council No. 1 of the National Council of Afro-Americans organizes with Conrad Rideout as president. This organization was a successor to the defunct Afro-American League.
A committee began visiting businesses to ask them to hire African Americans as clerks and janitors. The committee members were Conrad Rideout, C. S. Bailey, and John F. Cragwell.
Sources:
Esther Hall Mumford, Seattle's Black Victorians: 1852-1901 (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980), 170, 171.
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