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"The Blacks Should Not Be Administering the Philadelphia Plan": Nixon, the Hard Hats, and “Voluntary” Affirmative Action
- Author(s):
- Trevor Griffey (see profile)
- Date:
- 2010
- Group(s):
- Labor Studies
- Subject(s):
- African Americans, History, United States, Labor
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Affirmative Action, Arthur Fletcher, Department of Labor, Labor Unions, Philadelphia Plan, African American history, American history, Labor history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6TC0C
- Abstract:
- History of the "racial reconciliation" staged by building trades unions and President Richard Nixon, through which building trades union leaders taught Nixon how to reach out to organized labor and the white working class for the 1972 election in exchange for the President withdrawing his support for affirmative action in the construction industry.
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- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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