Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Chicago: White construction workers surrounded group of four Negroes, one of whom allegedly fired shots which touched off brief battle 9/25. Workers were demonstrating outside building where hearing was being held into alleged racial discrimination in the construction industry. No one was wounded but one policeman was injured in the fight.
Chicago: White construction workers surrounded group of four Negroes, one of whom allegedly fired shots which touched off brief battle 9/25. Workers were demonstrating outside building where hearing was being held into alleged racial discrimination in the construction industry. No one was wounded but one policeman was injured in the fight.
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Chicago: White construction workers surrounded group of four Negroes, one of whom allegedly fired shots which touched off brief battle 9/25. Workers were demonstrating outside building where hearing was being held into alleged racial discrimination in the construction industry. No one was wounded but one policeman was injured in the fight.

United Press International · [ca. September 1969]

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[Information from item housing] Labor: Protests: Discrimination

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