90.5 WESA Celebrates: Inventing Pittsburgh
90.5 WESA Celebrates: Inventing Pittsburgh
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How Nate Smith Forced Pittsburgh To Confront Discrimination
3 minutes Posted Jan 1, 2016 at 2:05 am.
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At the Carpenter’s Training Center just outside the City of Pittsburgh on the Parkway West, a class of nine learns how to build a level floor. Forty years ago, getting into the center’s apprenticeship program would have been a feat for a person of color or a woman. “Those days were, you know, the status quo,” said Harold McDonald, a representative for the Keystone+Mountain+Lakes Regional Council of Carpenters. In the 1960s, just two percent of the skilled trades and craft unions’ members were