Trevor Griffey is co-founder and Project Coordinator of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. He is a Doctoral Candidate in American History at the University of Washington. He is the co-editor of Black Power at Work: Community Control and Affirmative Action in the Construction Industry, 1960s-70s (Cornell University Press, forthcoming)..
His dissertation is entitled ""No Separate Peace": The United Construction Workers Association & the U.S. Third World Left."
He is a former Contributing Writer for the Seattle Weekly, ColorsNW Magazine, the South Seattle Star, and Real Change.
His publications related to civil rights, Seattle, and 20th century political history include:
- "Prologue to Homelessness." A history of the origins of modern homelessness in Seattle, Washington. Real Change, November, 2001.
- "Preserving Yesler Terrace." A social and architechtural history of Seattle's first public housing project, and the nation's first racially integrated public housing project.
- Review of Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide for K-12 Classrooms. H-1960s (September, 2005).
- Review of Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left. H-1960s (May, 2007.
- "Wing Luke - Pan-Asian Perspectives." Profile of the nation's only pan-Asian history museum. ColorsNW, May 2008.
- "Reviving the “Freedom Budget”." Real Change, January 14, 2009.
- "Seattle falls short of state open-government standards." Op-Ed about the need for more the City of Seattle in general, and Seattle Police Department in particular, to implement more professional archival procedures. Seattle Times, March 27, 2009.
- Nixon's Ghosts. A blog about history which daylights rare documents from the Nixon library.
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