Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world of white-collar work appears to a black man. "We can still usually tell what floor we are on in a corporation by the whiteness of it," he says. "In the basement, it might be all black; on the first floor, it's sort of polka dot. But as you go up, it gets whiter, and soon you get near the top, and except for that guard or receptionist out front you don't see many blacks." Certainly the union leaders have a point when they complain that integration is being forced on them while business...