My mother was hired to work in the factory at the Kellogg cereal company in Battle Creek Michigan in 1962. Her job at the time was in the “Plant Services Division” which was a fancy name for the janitorial department. At the time it was the only department you could work in if you were a black woman at Kellogg’s. But by the late 1960’s the company was under tremendous pressure to open up the
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