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Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration

Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration

Hardcover

Business General20th Century United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0820355143
ISBN13: 9780820355146
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Nov 15 2019
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Lockheed has been one of American's largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company). During the postwar era, its executives enacted complicated business responses to black demands for equality. Based on the papers of a personnel executive, the memoir of an African American employee, interviews, and company publications, this narrative history offers a unique inside perspective on the evolution of equal employment and affirmative action policies at Lockheed Aircraft's massive Georgia plant from the early 1950s through the early 1980s.

Randall L. Patton provides a rare, perhaps unique, account of African American struggle and management response, set within the context of the regional and national struggles for civil rights. The book describes the complex interplay of black protest, federal policy, and management action in a crucial space in the national economy and within the South, contributing to business history, policy history, labor history, and civil rights history.

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