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In a story for the North Carolina Catholic, October 12, 1958,
Mr. Ford recounts his experience hiring blacks for the first time.
Early in 1955 he went to find experienced machinists at A&T. His
forman initially agreed, then the next morning together with the secretary afid an apprentice said they would leave. The man at A&T was
Andrew Williams and a student of his. Williams and he agreed that
without any crew at all it would be hard to run the shop, so they
agreed to do it at night.
Another story from the Wall Street Journal, September 28, 29
1958, talking about desegregation and work practices. A Western
Electric plant talks about a coffee break in which one of four secretaries is black. And in a Douglass Aircraft plant in Charlotte,
there are black engineers and draftsmen. And in Greensboro, Burlington
Industries has just hired a black chemist, it says.
Tart Bell is quoted as saying, "We've had a good reception from
top management. They do recognize discrimination in employment as a
problem."
Bell claims that frequently there are changes being made, but
"many times businessmen don't want anybody to know about it." (It
sounds like BS.)
Survey of 402 firms in Greensboro, showed that 53 said they
intended to employ solely on the basis of merit without regard to race,
114 said they would employ on merit alone with some job categories,
and 43 others said they would employ solely on merit in the future "as
conditions change." They said they wanted to follow the lead of other
• firms. Nearly half the Greensboro employers at that time had no intention of hiring on merit alone.
Object Description
| Title | [Notes on news articles about desegregation in Greensboro, by William H. Chafe] |
| Date | 1977 |
| Date approximate? | yes |
| Creator | Chafe, William H., 1942- |
| Biographical/historical note |
William H. Chafe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1942. He was raised in Cambridge, attended the public schools there, and then went to Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude in history in 1962. After a year at Union Theological Seminary in New York, he taught for two years at Columbia Grammar School, a private preparatory school in New York City. Starting in 1965, he was a student in the graduate program in American history at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1971. He taught for one year at Vassar College, and then in 1971 began his career at Duke University. Much of Dean Chafe's professional scholarship reflects his long-term interest in issue of race and gender equality. His dissertation and first book focused on the changing social and economic roles of American women in the fifty years after the woman suffrage amendment. Subsequent books compared the patterns of race and gender discrimination in America. His book on the origins of the sit-in movement in North Carolina helped to re-orient scholarship on civil rights toward social history and community studies. Chafe has written two books on the history of post-World War II America, and a biography of the liberal crusader Allard Lowenstein. The author of eight books overall, he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981) for Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980) and the Sidney Hillman book award (1994) for Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993). Professor Chafe's activities at Duke have also reflected these interests. He has been co-director of the Duke Oral History Program, and its Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations; he is a founder and the former Academic Director of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women; he is also a founder and senior research associate of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1988 he was named the Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of History. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences. From 1990 to 1995 Chafe chaired the Duke University Department of History. In 1995 he became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 added to that title new responsibilities as Dean of Trinity College. He has most recently been appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. He is married to Lorna Waterhouse Chafe, Coordinator of Child Care Services at Duke. They have two children, Christopher, 30, and Jennifer, 28. -From Chafe's personal webpage, http://www.aas.duke.edu/admin/deans/faculty/chafe.html. |
| Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.) -- Race relations |
| Topics | Business desegregation |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This document consists of two pages of typed notes assembled by William Chafe circa 1977 on news articles about Greensboro desegregation. Article topics include Robert Ford's hiring of black machinists; desegregated North Carolina business; Tartt Bell's thoughts on North Carolina business desegregation; statistics on business leader's plans to desegregate; and Ed Lowenstein's hiring black architects and draftsmen. These notes form part of Duke history professor William Chafe's research culminating in his 1980 book Civilities and Civil Rights. |
| Type | text |
| Original format | reports |
| Original dimensions | 11" x 8.5" |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University |
| Source collection | RL.00207 William Henry Chafe Oral History Collection |
| Finding aid link | http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/chafe/ |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse. |
| Object ID | Duke_RL.00207.0871 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884367599 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | 4.23.871-01 |
| Full text | In a story for the North Carolina Catholic, October 12, 1958, Mr. Ford recounts his experience hiring blacks for the first time. Early in 1955 he went to find experienced machinists at A&T. His forman initially agreed, then the next morning together with the secretary afid an apprentice said they would leave. The man at A&T was Andrew Williams and a student of his. Williams and he agreed that without any crew at all it would be hard to run the shop, so they agreed to do it at night. Another story from the Wall Street Journal, September 28, 29 1958, talking about desegregation and work practices. A Western Electric plant talks about a coffee break in which one of four secretaries is black. And in a Douglass Aircraft plant in Charlotte, there are black engineers and draftsmen. And in Greensboro, Burlington Industries has just hired a black chemist, it says. Tart Bell is quoted as saying, "We've had a good reception from top management. They do recognize discrimination in employment as a problem." Bell claims that frequently there are changes being made, but "many times businessmen don't want anybody to know about it." (It sounds like BS.) Survey of 402 firms in Greensboro, showed that 53 said they intended to employ solely on the basis of merit without regard to race, 114 said they would employ on merit alone with some job categories, and 43 others said they would employ solely on merit in the future "as conditions change." They said they wanted to follow the lead of other • firms. Nearly half the Greensboro employers at that time had no intention of hiring on merit alone. |
