Week Nine -- March 5

Affirmative Action, past and future
Guest: US Postal Service Diversity Coordinator Carol Peoples-Proctor

Guests: Desegregating the Seattle Building Trades: Direct Action, Legal Action and Resistance
Todd Hawkins, retired union pipefitter and member of United Construction Workers Association,
and Trevor Griffey, UW History Graduate student and author of a history of the UCWA struggle.

Reading completed:
Thurgood Marshall's dissent in Bakke, Class-Based Affirmative Action: a Natural For Labor by Richard Kahlenberg, and William Gould, The Seattle Building Trades Decree (handed out in class).

 

 

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