Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BLACK MILITANCY. It is the black militants who especially anger the white Middle. During 1969, job militants at construction sites in Pittsburgh came up against phalanxes of hard-hatted white workers determined to prove that they were capable of counterviolence. "The threats strike me as blackmail," says Al Braselton, an Atlanta advertising man. "Negroes have got to confront the white community strongly, but it had better not be with shotguns, because we've got a lot more of them than
...first real test of the plan's effectiveness will come next spring after contracts are awarded on three federal projects around Philadelphia, where the Labor Department is aiming at 1,000 more construction jobs for blacks within four years. The department hopes to expand the plan soon to Pittsburgh, Boston, Seattle and Chicago...