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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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    Publisher:
    Cornell University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2010
    Book Title:
    Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
    Author/Editor:
    David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey
    Chapter:
    6
    Page Range:
    134 - 160
    ISBN:
    978-0-8014-6195-8
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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