Tuesday, February 12, 2013

safeway diversifies c. 1961 because of this sign right here


Seattle's Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) used these signs in successful picketing and boycott againstemploymentdiscrimination in October 1961. At the start only 6 out of 1,700 Safeway employees were black; three months later, there were 28.

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