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CHAPTER 3 A Plan for Progress - Pg. 69

3 A Plan for Progress Lockheed Aircraft's facility in Marietta, Georgia, tried to eat breakfast in the white cafeteria. The cafe- teria workers closed down the line. The black employees en- tered another line. The food workers closed down that line also, as they had been instructed to do by Lockheed's manage- ment. The black employees retreated to the black cafeteria where they told everyone else in the cafeteria what had hap- pened to them. The anger over segregated eating facilities O N MARCH 22, 1961, AT 6:35 A.M., FIVE BLACK EMPLOYEES AT