"The Housing Situation of Minority Groups in the State of Washington," April 30, 1961

This report, gathered by faculty at the University of Washington, was submitted by the city's Civic Unity Committee--established in the 1940s to negotiate racial tensions in the city--to the Washington State Advisory Committee. The research committee found housing in Seattle to be segregated, and disproportionately substandard and expensive for minority groups. Struggles for open housing and attempts to break out of racial ghettoes created by segregation characterized were major features of early 1960s civil rights campaigns in Seattle. [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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