THE DIVERSITY INDEX
THE PRESIDENT OF LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
and Vice President Lyndon Johnson agreed to end
Lockheed’s workforce segregation on May 25, 1961.
Looking back, this contract, which was announced with great
fanfare at the White House, signified far more than the public
acknowledgment of systematic racial segregation in employment.
It illustrated the leading role that prominent corporations
were beginning to embrace by hiring and promoting the
widest range of workers in this country. Businesses were accepting
responsibility for actively shaping the full scope of
the American workforce. If corporations wish to have the best
educated, highest motivated and most diverse workforce in the
world today, they should resume and expand the process of
reaching...
