Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity

by Bettylou Valentine, Maid Adams, Jean Durning, et al.

Book Overview

Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town.

Energized by the national civil rights movement, an interracial group of Seattle residents joined together to form the Seattle chapter of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990848
• ISBN13: 9780295990842
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher