The Black Bag Speaker Series sponsored by the Black Studies Department at Portland State University will host Trevor Griffey, Project Coordinator of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 12:00-1:30 p.m. This event will be held in PSU’s Multicultural Center, Smith Memorial Student Union 228.

Trevor is also co-editor of and contributor to Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry (Cornell University Press, 2010). This book examines community activism and direct action by civil rights groups to advocate desegregation of federal and city-funded construction projects across northern cities in the 1960s and 1970s.

The following day, the NHN will hold its quarterly general meeting and public event. This event will feature Trevor, Felicia Williams (PDX Civil Rights Project, Portland State University), and Portland labor leader Keith Edwards (International Representative, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) discussing “From Black Power to Green Jobs: Civil Rights, Trade Unions & Urban Renewal in Portland & Seattle, 1960s to the present“.

Please join us for both events!

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