Racial Discrimination Protest

Endorsements for Seattle in Black and White

"An eyewitness account from one corner of our country of the energy and moral power of the civil rights movement. It is also a call to continue the work of building 'the beloved community.'" --Congressman John Lewis, National Civil Rights Leader, in Seattle in Black and White

"Seattle in Black and White is a story rich with personal accounts of courage, honor, and a belief that the American dream is for all. It weaves the threads of activism, courage, brilliance, and love into a luxurious canvas for all to view." -- Norm Rice, CEO of the Seattle Foundation and former Seattle Mayor, in Seattle in Black and White

"Seattle needs this book. It tells the remarkable story of the activists who pierced the veil of complacency in the early 1960s and forced the city to begin dismantling its systems of segregation." -- James N. Gregory, author of The Southern Diaspora, in Seattle in Black and White

"A powerful reminder that the campaign for racial equality had to be waged in every corner of the nation including the Pacific Northwest." -- Quintard Taylor, author of The Forging of a Black Community, in Seattle in Black and White

Seattle in Black and White can be purchased from the University of Washington Press, University Book Store, Elliot Bay Book Company, Village Books, Third Place Books, Powell's Books, Amazon.com and many other book retailers.

Top of page photo credits: Seattle Post-Intelligencer collection, 1986.5.5929, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle.

Authors

Joan Singler (top right) was a founding member of Seattle CORE. Jean Durning (top left), Bettylou Valentine (bottom left), and Maid Adams (bottom right) joined soon thereafter.

 Authors

Author Photo Credit: Courtesy of Walter Bodle.