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Start Over Topic affirmative action programs Journal journal of american history Region philadelphia (pa.)
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1. Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945-1969.

Author

Sugrue, Thomas J.

Subjects
AFFIRMATIVE action programs, HUMAN rights workers, RACE discrimination, EMPLOYMENT of African Americans, EMPLOYMENT discrimination
Abstract

Explores the origins of workplace affirmative action in U.S. civil rights activists' postwar struggle to break the white-dominated construction trades in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Views on affirmative action; Key actors in the history of affirmative action; Demonstrations staged by civil rights activists in Philadelphia in the 1960s to protest discrimination against African Americans in the building trades.

Published
2004
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