Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration - Softcover

Randall L. Patton (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820361720 ISBN 13: 9780820361727

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2021

Synopsis

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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About the Author

RANDALL L. PATTON is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is coauthor, with David B. Parker, of Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry, author of Shaw Industries: A History, and editor of Working for Equality: The Narrative of Harry Hudson (all Georgia).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820361720
• ISBN 13: 9780820361727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244