Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statistics-like similar ones released last week on the Mississippi Power and Light Company-come from confidential reports filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Washington. Unlike the Mississippi figures, however, the Arkansas and Louisiana reports have been revised to reflect current 1970 employment totals...
...University also holds another $4.5 million in bonds from the three subsidiaries. Harvard's Arkansas P and L bonds are worth $2,043,802; its Louisiana P and L bonds, $1,912,500; and its Mississippi P and L bonds...
...last five years, while the financial lustre of the Middle South investments has dimmed, the social propriety of Harvard's holdings there has also been questioned. Northern students, conditioned during the mid-sixties to attack anything with the word "Mississippi" attached to it, singled out Middle South and one of its subsidiaries-the Mississippi Power and Light Company-as targets for criticism...
...remarkable disingenuousness of Bennett's actions became clear only last week. The Federal government has been making its own studies of Middle South, and its findings have been less rosy than Bennett's. The figures that Federal investigators collected on Mississippi P and L form a paradigm of discriminatory hiring patterns in the South. Operating in a region where the population is 35 to 50 per cent black. Mississippi P and L's own cosmos is only 4.5 per cent black-with nearly all of those filling traditional roles as janitors or unskilled workers. Preliminary reports on other Middle South...
There are heavy obstacles that even the best-intentioned company faces in breaking discriminatory hiring patterns; the employment charts for Mississippi P and L could conceivably mean that the company had been trying hard but had not yet made headway. Significantly, the Federal records suggest exactly the opposite case. According to officials in the Equal Employment Commission, both Middle South and its subsidiaries have failed several times to submit employment reports, to adopt affirmative-action plans, or to put any muscle behind their vague claims of good intent...