University of Georgia Press
Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration
Key Metrics
- Randall L Patton
- University of Georgia Press
- Hardcover
- 9780820355146
- 9.1 X 6.2 X 0.9 inches
- 1.1 pounds
- History > United States - 20th Century
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Lockheed has been one of American's largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company). During the postwar era, its executives enacted complicated business responses to black demands for equality. Based on the papers of a personnel executive, the memoir of an African American employee, interviews, and company publications, this narrative history offers a unique inside perspective on the evolution of equal employment and affirmative action policies at Lockheed Aircraft's massive Georgia plant from the early 1950s through the early 1980s.
Randall L. Patton provides a rare, perhaps unique, account of African American struggle and management response, set within the context of the regional and national struggles for civil rights. The book describes the complex interplay of black protest, federal policy, and management action in a crucial space in the national economy and within the South, contributing to business history, policy history, labor history, and civil rights history.
Author Bio
Randall L. Patton is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is coauthor, with David B. Parker, of Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry, author of Shaw Industries: A History, and editor of Working for Equality: The Narrative of Harry Hudson (all Georgia).
Books
Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019)
Shaw Industries: A History (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002)
Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry, with David Parker (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999)
Research Interests
- Work in Progress
- "Neoliberal Dixie," tentative title, research stage
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Georgia, 1990
- M.A., History, University of Georgia, 1985
- University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 1982
Source: Kennesaw State University
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