Word: clorox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What actually happened in that interview does not easily lend itself to investigation. Bowman says the recruiter told her the firm once had "a gal like you" working for them--"she was just like you, only shorter"--and that the last black who worked for them now works for Clorox--"Isn't that funny, a black working for a bleach company?" John H. Morrison, the recruiter, categorically denies the offensive remarks. The matter, then, could only be decided in terms of Bowman's word against Morrison...
...response to the case of Gail E. Bowman, a black third-year Law School student, who charged a recruiter, John H. Morrison of the selective Chicago firm of Kirkland and Ellis, with telling her, among other offensive remarks, that "the last black to leave (the firm) went to Clorox...isn't that funny, a black man going to work for a bleach company...
According to Bowman, the recruiter, John H. Morrison, told her "the last black to leave [the firm] went to Clorox...isn't that funny, a black man going to work for a bleach company...
According to Bowman, Morrison told her "the last black to leave [the firm] went to Clorox...isn't that funny, a black man going to work for a bleach company...
...remarks to her during a job interview at the Law School last fall. According to notes made by Bowman directly after the interview, the recruiter, John H. Morrison of the prestigious Chicago firm of Kirkland and Ellis, told her that "the last black to leave [the firm] went to Clorox... isn't that funny, a black going to work for a bleach company?," and that the firm "just can't keep black lawyers because corporations hire them... they have to keep the quotas, too." These comments, if accurate, are both insensitive and irresponsible. But Morrison refuses to discuss any explanation...