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Seattle in Black and White

The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity

By Joan Singler, Jean C. Durning, Bettylou Valentine, and Martha (Maid) J. Adams

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...