Not soon afterwards, the university hired the Alexander Proudfoot Corporation, an efficiency firm, whose goal was to reduce university operating costs especially in the service and clerical sectors, including the jobs held by black workers [REF].
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the Duke community gathered together during the Silent Vigil to raise awareness for racial equality on campus, presenting an opportunity for Local 77 to accentuate both their workplace and racial equality concerns.