1. Race and Technology
Answer the QUESTIONS by reading the addition materials(USE SIMPLE LANGUAGE AND
PUT THE PAGES NUMBER OF WHERE YOU FIND THE ANSWER) (You can keep it simple my
professor is NOT looking for a paragraph length answer) Venus Green: “Race and
Technology” (101-122, 136-) 1. Why is race alone an inadequate category for studying labor
histories? 2. What happened once telephone operators transformed from white workers to
black workers? 3. What guided Bell System’s hiring policies and perceptions of African
American women? 4. How did Bell publications portray African Americans? 5. Why did the
New York Telephone Company refuse to hire African Americans in 1920? 6. Why did the
New York Telephone Company refuse to hire African Americans during the 1930s? 7. What
was AT&T’s hiring policy for African American women prior to 1940? 8. How did the Civil
Rights era impact Bell System’s hiring practices? 9. How did AT&T vice president Walter
Straley justify hiring African Americans in 1969? 10. Why did the new Traffic Service
Position System make things much harder for telephone operators? Aris Folley: “Gladys
West” 11. Why is Gladys West significant? 12. Why is this brief article included in this
week’s reading?#Race #Technology