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Collection Spotlight: Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. Papers
Posted February 11th, 2015 by gstrassel
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- Affirmative action
- African American businesspeople
- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century
- Civil rights--America
- Detroit Urban League
- Humphrey, Hubert H., 1911-1978
- NAACP
- National Urban League
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Romney, George
- Urban Affairs
- Young, Whitney M.
Best known as the first African American member of management at both the Michigan Bell Telephone Company and AT&T, Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. served as an influential civil rights figure in the American business community from the 1940s until his passing in 1984. What separated Scruggs from many other civil rights figures was his focus on improving racial equality through integrating African Americans into positions of management within large corporations. The Ramon S. Scruggs Sr. Papers, recently opened to the public at the Walter P. Reuther Library, chronicle the subject’s numerous accomplishments. read more »
