Word: ap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average salary for white AP&L power plant employees was $8000, while the average salary for blacks...
...AP&L's summer job programs for engineering students, all the people hired so far have been white, while summer laborer jobs have gone to both blacks and whites. AP&L says its summer job hiring is done on a first-come-first-served basis...
Baker's suit in is two parts. One asks that he be promoted and receive back pay for the 25 years he has worked as a laborer, and the other, a class action filed on behalf of all blacks, asks the court to force AP&L to revamp its testing procedures...
Baker says the Wonderlic Personnel Test, which all AP&L job applicants must take, is racially discriminatory. A 1970 study compiled by the Wonderlic company confirms that the test has "a negative racial effect...
...However, AP&L officials have produced records showing that in 1972 black applicants did better on the Wonderlic test than whites...