Women of color had two
battles to fight
Beverly Sims and her husband Tyree Scott picket with members of the
United Construction Workers
Association, a multi ethnic
organization for workers in the construction
industry.
At the same time that people of
color were struggling against employment discrimination,
women of all races and ethnicities were as well; they
wanted to be allowed into industries that had traditionally
been reserved for men. Often
times these careers paid better than ones that had been
traditionally labeled “women’s” careers.