Abstract
The Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects, a collection of twelve projects run by the University of Washington labor historian James Gregory, is an excellent Web site dedicated to the social movements that transformed the Pacific Northwest and the United States in the twentieth century. Well put together and filled with outstanding photographs, historical essays, films, PowerPoint presentations, and oral histories, this site is an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and researchers. Among the site's most valuable contributions is its highlighting of the civil rights movement in the Northwest, a region largely forgotten in the broad national discussion of the civil rights era. The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project page has video excerpts of over eighty civil rights activists, including Chicano muralists, African American ministers, Puyallup tribal members, and early acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) activists. This outstanding collection would prove valuable in the classroom. That project also has a series of films and PowerPoint presentations on different aspects of the civil rights movement in Seattle. Its creators have pieced together a list of racial covenants for Seattle neighborhoods, with the specific language excluding various peoples, allowing local students and residents to discover the history of racism within their own neighborhoods.
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