Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Middle South articles has not ? confined to Mississippi. After a Federal civil ? agency leaked several secret reports on Middle ? hiring practices, Harvard officials were un? sedly dismayed to see the reports so promi? publicized...
...veral copies of recen: CRIM ? into the Mississippi Delta. a ? mnus now living in Greenville ? to a series of stories on the ? Utilities Company...
...first quick glance, the meaning of the statisties seems clear enough: Middle South doesn't have many black workers. According to studies conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity C?mmission (EEOC), three Middle South subsidiaries have uniformly-low percentages of black workers: both Mississippi Power and Light and Louisiana P and L have 4.5 per cent black work forces, while Arkansas P and L dips to 4.2 per cent. Exact figures on the ether two companies in the Middle South chain-New Orleans Public Service and Middle South Services-are not available, but the EEOC says that they...
...record looks suddenly worse. There is another statistical problem as well. As much as the national utilities have concentrated their black workers in the lowest jobs, they cannot match the sedimentation of black employees at the bottom of Middle South's employment rolls. Neither the Arkansas. Louisiana, or Mississippi Power and Light companies has one black worker in any of its upper employment categories: there are 0 blacks out of 661 managers in the three companies, 0 out of 449 professional workers, and 0 out of 264 sales workers. The only breaks in the pattern come with the technical staff...
...more blatant example of the gap between talk and action came in Mississippi. After C. E. Jones, the personel director for Mississippi Power and Light, reported that his company was trying hard to recruit graduates of black colleges, several blacks at local schools confirmed his story. But there was a catch: the only jobs the blacks were offered-after graduating with degrees in economics or business-were the same typist jobs that white high school girls filled. Coupled with the absence of any signs of progress, these lapses score heavily against the company...