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Atlanta Area Alumni Chapter
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What if past U.S. business practices were scrutinized like Germans and Swiss corporations during the Nazi era? |
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Please
join the Atlanta Area Alumni Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma
for our next meeting On Tuesday, May 20 as we welcome
Douglas A. Blackmon, The Wall Street Journal’s bureau
chief in Atlanta when he will share with us the information
in his recently published book “SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME.”
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It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II. Over the past 20 years, Douglas A. Blackmon has written extensively about the American quandary of race, exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a Mississippi Delta farm town, lost episodes of the Civil Rights movement, and, repeatedly, the dilemma of how a contemporary society should grapple with a troubled past. Many of his stories in The Wall Street Journal have explored the interplay of wealth, corporate conduct and racial segregation. As The Wall Street Journal's bureau chief in Atlanta, he manages the paper’s coverage of airlines and other major transportation companies and publicly traded companies and institutions based in the southeastern U.S. The bureau directly covers the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and more than 1,200 companies, including Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Bank of America, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, United Parcel Service and FedEx. The Journal staff in Atlanta also writes about key news and issues in the 11-state region. Blackmon's stories or the work of his team have been nominated by the Journal for Pulitzer Prizes four times, including for coverage of the subprime meltdown, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Florida hurricanes in 2004 and for his 2001 examination of slave labor in the 20th century. His article on U.S. Steel was included in the 2003 edition of Best Business Stories. The Journal’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina received a special National Headliner award in 2006. Blackmon joined the Journal in October 1995 as a reporter in Atlanta. Prior to joining the Journal, Blackmon was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he covered race and politics, and special assignments including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Previously, he was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat, managing editor of the Daily Record in Little Rock, Ark, and a writer for weekly newspapers. Blackmon penned his first newspaper story at the age of 12, for the Progress, in his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. He graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., and lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children. |
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| Date: $20.00 fee for all others, including recent graduates,
paid at the door. BGS inductees may join the Atlanta
Area Chapter at the meeting. |
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Future Speakers: June 17 - Jim Huling, CEO Matrix Resources and Professional Speaker July 15 - Dennis Lange, Owner & Founder of FIVE SEASONS Brewery and Restaurant August 19 - AJ Robinson of Central Atlanta Progress September 16 - Goizueta Business School - Emory University October 21 - Dr. John Seffrin, CEO of the American Cancer Society The Atlanta Area Alumni Chapter meets MONTHLY on the THIRD TUESDAY at Five Seasons Brewing.
Come on out to the Five Seasons to meet with "The
Best in Business," |
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Membership Dues
Associate Membership: $30
New Graduate Membership: $10 (only in the first year following graduation)
To download an application for membership, please go to http://www.betagammasigma.org/Forms/alumapp.pdf and return it to the central office:
Beta Gamma Sigma
125 Weldon Parkway
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
For more information, contact:
Email the Central Office or call 1-800-337-HNRS -or-
Martin Schmidler, chapter president
Schmidler@uniprofoodservice.com
Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc. © 2007 125 Weldon Parkway Maryland Heights, MO 63043 |
Phone: 314.432.5650 |
Beta Gamma Sigma and the Key logo are registered trademarks of Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc.
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