Black Construction Coalition
BiographyOrganized under the leadership of Nate Smith, one of the few African Americans with a union card, the Black Construction Coalition (BCC) initiated the activism in Operation Dig that held public demonstrations, marches, and at the site of some of the major construction projects in the city including Three Rivers Stadium, US Steel Building and Western Psychiatric Institute. By the end of 1970 the BCC proposal to include African Americans in the trade unions and job training was adopted and morphed into the Pittsburgh Plan that became a model for other cities to address the same type of racial discrimination in trade unions.
