Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the tournament selections were announced Sunday afternoon in St. Paul, Minn., the Black Bears (29-11) grabbed the number-one slot in the East seedings...
...sometimes patience wears thin. If faced with a white employee who could not accept working under a black superior, says Rockwell International's Washington, he would help the recalcitrant employee find new work -- at another company. "I'm not going to tolerate it," he says, "because I'm the boss...
...American Institute for Managing Diversity, a research organization affiliated with Morehouse College in Atlanta, offers training for companies trying to manage increasing cultural mixing in the workplace. Institute director R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. says racism is not always the explanation when a black supervisor creates discontent among white workers: "Sometimes people are not skilled at managing people who are different from themselves." As an agency manager in Atlanta a few years after his North Carolina post, Equitable's St. Clair presided over a 90-member office with just a handful of white workers. He found himself helping them cope with...
...Many black managers say their biggest problem is learning not to bristle at every challenge to their authority. The armed forces pioneered the elevation of blacks to supervisory ranks after President Harry Truman ordered desegregation in 1948. In 1987 Brigadier General Fred Augustus Gorden became the first black officer to serve as commandant of cadets at West Point. While he was walking across the campus one day, a white cadet failed to give the requisite salute. Gorden paused. Still no salute. He could have severely disciplined the cadet, but he chose simply to talk with him instead. "I've learned...
...America when I shall love it . . . in the way that I deeply and intensely love the Soviet Union"), and in 1950 the State Department revoked his passport. He made new enemies when he accepted the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952. White enthusiasts dropped away, joining a series of black spokesmen who had given him their backs. The head of the N.A.A.C.P. pronounced him "more to be pitied than damned...