It took a Black labor leader threatening to put 100,000 marchers in the streets of the nation’s capital — and a war that made every available worker matter — to force the first real opening in the telephone industry’s hiring pattern. Part 3 of a 12-part series, covering 1941 to 1953.
AT&T and Black America, Part 3: A Threatened March, a Wartime Shortage, and the First Black Operators
It took a Black labor leader threatening to put 100,000 marchers in the streets of the nation's capital — and a war that made every available worker matter…
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