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Wednesday Sep 23, 2015
September 23 The Nixon Plan in Philadelphia
Wednesday Sep 23, 2015
Wednesday Sep 23, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1969. President Richard Milhous Nixon issued the Philadelphia Plan. The goal of the plan was to require building trades unions to admit black members into their ranks. Nixon believed this would show him as a civil rights supporter without having to give in to the more radical demands of the civil rights movement.
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