How IBM Workers Took On Racism and Apartheid w/ ann haeyoung
Tech Won't Save Us
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Why Did IBM Integrate?
At i b m, there was an idea that these workers ould do kind of the lower end jobs. They didn't want to see them moving up the ranks, essentially. A lot of block workers were specifically with sales in the divisions where they were not selling large, main frame computers. There was also a programming test for like, becoming a programmer that doctor hudson had taken, and that was used as a way of weeding out black employees who wanted to move into programming but couldn't because they didn't score high enough on it.
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