Digging up Hidden History Geocache Series – Check out #1 (GCAQ1XT) for more details!
We recommend completing— or at least reading – the geocaches in the numbered order.
Make sure to record the code for the final, found on the cache’s log sheet!
US Steel Building
Demanding equal access to apprenticeship training, jobs following the completion of their training, and an end to discriminatory labor and employment practices, the Black Construction Coalition staged a three-day period of protests in 1969 between what activists call “Black Monday” (August 25) and “Black Wednesday” (August 27). Over a thousand demonstrators—African Americans and their white allies—gathered in Oakland, Downtown, and the North Shore, defying a court injunction to limit the number of demonstrators to twenty people. After marching across the Manchester Bridge to the Three Rivers Stadium, demonstrators headed through Downtown to the site of the U.S. Steel Building, where white workers were in violation of the city’s order to close. They chanted, “more jobs now for black men,” and forced white workers off the job. The protests at the U.S. Steel Building prompted a counter-demonstration from anti-civil rights marchers and members of the John Birch Society, some of whom yelled racist phrases and wore Nazi symbols.
Hidden History #1: Freedom Corner
Hidden History #2: Three Rivers Stadium
Hidden History #3: Bidwell Training Center
Hidden History #4: US Steel Building
Hidden History #5: NAACP
Hidden History: The Final