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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...
...AP&L has also testified that about 30 per cent of the plant employees hired since 1970 have been black. AP&L's total work force is about 9 per cent black...
Harvard is the largest single stockholder in Middle South Utilities Inc., a holding company that owns Arkansas Power and Light (AP&L), the company planning to build the 2800-megawatt coal-burning plant...