Employment Discrimination and CORE's DEEDS Campaign, 1961-1964
Almost from its inception in 1961, Seattle's CORE chapter struggled against employment discrimination in Seattle's downtown businesses. CORE collected extensive documentation on hiring practices and racial discrimination and then attempted to use the information to negotiate with business management to bring about changes. When this failed, or moved slower than CORE thought was reasonable, they changed tactics to pickets, boycotts, and direct action techniques, culminating in the Drive for Equal Employment in Downtown Stores (DEEDS) in 1964. Though the DEEDS campaign failed, CORE continued its attempts to influence larger layers of African-American workers by turning its attention, in 1966, to segregation within labor unions. These documents from employment discrimination and CORE's DEEDS campaign are part of a special section of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. Digitization of documents courtesy of the Special Collections Library, University of Washington (CORE, Seattle Chapter Records, 1961-1970, Manuscript Collection 1563). Copyright (c) reserved.
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Date: 08/22/2008
Size: 25 items
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Beatrice Jackson's applications for employment, September 12, 1961
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Ollie M. Phillips' application for employment, September 6, 1961
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Businesses negotiating with CORE
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Report on Negotiations with Albertson's Grocery, by Ethel Lightfoot, January 16, 1962
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Hiring equality negotiations with the Bon Marche, October 9, 1963
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Employment discrimination survey
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Seattle's Downtown Business District
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"DEEDS Background and Basics," by Charles A. Valentine, October 1964
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Fact Sheet on Downtown Employment, c. 1964
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Letter announcing the formation of the DEEDS campaign, August 26, 1964
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Flyer for DEEDS rally, October 4, 1964
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"An Appeal to Black and White," flyer for the downtown boycott, c . winter 1964
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Minimum Goals for Downtown Integration, August 1964
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Letter to CORE supporters about the winter boycott, November 16, 1964
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DEEDS Boycott flyer, c. winter 1964
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Negotiations on Equal Employment, August 5, 1964
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Propaganda Sheet on Employer Discrimination
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DEEDS campaign flyer, c. 1964
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"Shop In" Action Guidelines
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"Support DEEDS" leaflet, c. 1964
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Negotiations with Tradewell Grocery, June 19, 1964
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John Cornethan report on Hiring Discrimination, September 28, 1966
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" A Proposal for Union Cooperation"
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Press Release supporting "Project Equality" campaign targeting labor unions, July 21, 1966
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Labor Unions: A Report on the Seattle Area," by CORE, November 9, 1966
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