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>
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% |
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| Squidward Community College | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |