
Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration
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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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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Company Name
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 "Economic Necessity and Governmental Pressures" Lockheed and Equal Employment Opportunity before Georgia
- CHAPTER 2 "Lockheed Will Live in the Southern Tradition" Lockheed Comes to Georgia, 1951-1954
- CHAPTER 3 "Progress to Be Permanent Had to Be Gradual" Gradualism and Its Discontents, 1954-1960
- CHAPTER 4 "A Problem That Was Already Here" The Early Plans for Progress Era, 1961-1964
- CHAPTER 5 "Build the People" Th eEra of Uncertainty, 1965-1970
- CHAPTER 6 "The Competitive Economic Advantages of Having an Excellent Minority Hiring Record" The Banks Case and Its Aft ermath, 1966-1972
- CHAPTER 7 "Atlanta Will Be a Problem" Lockheed-Georgia and the mea, the nab, the ceta, and the Equal Employment Conundrum, 1973-1982
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix. Representative Documents
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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