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Question

This company’s history of discrimination against Black employees was publicized by Bari-Ellen Roberts in a class action lawsuit. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this member company of the “Seven Sisters” in its industry whose chairman Torkild Rieber illegally traded with Francoists during the Spanish Civil War.

ANSWER: Texaco [or Texas Corporation]

[10e] Roberts’s lawsuit won the largest settlement for a discrimination-related suit at the time, before this company settled a similar case with Black employees in 2001. Asa Griggs Candler developed this company with a recipe to its flagship beverage bought from an Atlanta chemist.

ANSWER: The Coca-Cola Company [accept Coke]

[10m] The lead counsel on both the Texaco and Coca-Cola suits, Cyrus Mehri, later formed the Fritz Pollard Alliance to lobby this organization to advocate for their employees of color; that lobbying culminated in the Rooney Rule.

ANSWER: NFL [or National Football League]

<GP, American History>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Brandeis B	Boston College A	10	0	10
Harvard	MIT	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Tufts A	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Tufts B	10	0	10
Amherst	Yale	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech C	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	10	10	20
South Carolina	Virginia Tech B	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	Missouri	10	10	20
Truman	WashU	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	The cult of SGA	10	10	20
Old and Young	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	bingy academy	10	10	20
Maryland	Penn State	10	10	20
Pitt	RIT	10	10	20
UCF B	Florida Tech	10	0	10
UCF A	UF B	10	0	10
UF C	UF A	0	0	0
Valencia	USF	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley Past	10	0	10
Carleton A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	10	0	10
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	20
McGill A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	10
Waterloo Cloze	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy B	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10
Innovation Academy A	Lambert	10	0	10
Milton	Mississippi State	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	0	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	0	10
SIUE	Chicago B	10	10	20
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	0	10
Bristol	LSE A	0	0	0
LSE B	Southampton	10	10	20
Warwick B	Cambridge B	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick C	10	0	10
ALCU	Jason et al.	10	10	20
SGV Ventures	Claremont	10	0	10
U[C]SD	Anderson et al.	10	0	10