Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director of occupational safety and health: "We want any individual who is selling drugs in our plants to know that his days as a GM employee are numbered. We're not going to tolerate it." Last week Electronic Data Systems, a subsidiary of GM, began firing employees in the Detroit area who had failed drug-screening tests given to 104 security guards, clerks and secretaries in February...
Quickly, though, the ordinance served to spotlight the area's long-standing racial divide. Civil rights leaders saw it as a clumsy move to keep out blacks from Detroit. In retaliation, the N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow...
...last week the dispute over the parks ordinance had expanded into a more general grievance over the dearth of commercial facilities in Detroit. During the past decade the city has lost most of its famous retailers, and black leaders hope a boycott will pressure merchants to provide convenient outlets for the city's thousands of black customers. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Adams urged Detroiters to use the Lenten season to abstain from shopping at all stores in the suburbs, not just the ones in Dearborn. "Don't shop anywhere but in Detroit," he told his congregation. "If you can't find...
...call for Detroit-only shopping is expected to have limited success, even among blacks who have been insulted by Dearborn's racial attitudes. Fred Morgan, 39, a Detroit truck driver, long ago dropped the idea of buying a house in Dearborn, in part because he felt unwelcome. But he still will shop there. "I was out last night looking for an air compressor," he said. "Where am I going to get one in Detroit for the kind of price I can find in the suburbs...
...city that is home to the Ford Motor Co., the fourth-largest corporation in the U.S. and one praised for its vigorous hiring and promotion of black rank-and-file workers and executives, including many who commute to Dearborn daily. The campaign has received some visible support from the Detroit police department, which pulled out of a crime-prevention convention last week because it was held in Dearborn. Several other organizations, including an education group and a black sorority, have canceled or are considering calling off events in Dearborn...