Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, at least 18 Negroes have tried to crack Cincinnati's all-white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work...
Died. George White, 78, theatrical producer, whose flashy, fleshy Scandals vied with Ziegfeld's Follies and Earl Carroll's Vanities as the top Broadway attraction of the 1920s and '30s; of leukemia; in Hollywood. White introduced such future stars as Kate Smith, Ray Bolger, Rudy Vallee and Eleanor Powell to the Great White Way-which he always claimed was named...
...WHITE HELP. Some of the most promising new businesses have been initiated by white businessmen, drawn to the ghetto by mixed motives of social activism, self-protection and profit...
Barriers to Bigness. Doing that will not be easy. Beyond doubt, black capitalism today is meager. Though Negroes constitute 12% of the U.S. population, they own scarcely 1% of the country's 5,000,000 private business firms. One out of every 40 white Americans is a proprietor, but only one Negro...
...Often, white executives pool their assistance. One successful instance is Rochester Business Opportunities Corp., which grew out of a proposal made by Eastman Kodak. R.B O.C. provides technical expertise in everything from plant layout to accounting, has set up a free night class in business management at a local college. So far the organization has helped 24 Negroes to start businesses. Xerox teamed up with R.B.O.C. and a militant Negro organization named FIGHT to establish a Negro-owned company to manufacture transformers and metal stampings. Xerox will buy $500,000 worth of them yearly...