In the oppressive summer heat of August 1963, the New York Amsterdam News ran a short story on page 7 of its August 10th edition: “Plumber To Be First In Union.”
Three policemen secure themselves as they reach two civil rights pickets who chained themselves halfway up the boom of a construction crane at Rochdale Village construction site in the Queens borough of New York City, Sept. 5, 1963. Pickets are Andy Young, 32, second from right, and Frank Anderson, 22, partly hidden by police. Pickets were protesting alleged imbalance in the hiring of minorities in the construction trades. The crane was lowered and pickets removed.
For weeks, hundreds of clergy and activists had been arrested while blockading the site that our newspaper in other stories called “near lily white”, demanding that at least 25% of workers be “Negro or Puerto Rican.” “A number of those unions were very militant, but also very racially exclusive. And then they fought against the inclusion of racial discrimination prohibitions in labor law,” Dr. Griffey added. With the passage of the, racial discrimination in hiring and employment was banned but construction sites continued to be bastions of de facto segregation.
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