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Fewer black dealers | |
The number of black-owned GM dealerships has fluctuated over the past 2 decades, but the trend in recent years has been downward. | |
Black-owned dealerships | |
1986 | 114 |
1991 | 77 |
1993 | 84 |
1997 | 106 |
1999 | 115 |
2004 | 108 |
2008 | 86 |
Today, General Motors is a vigorous supporter of affirmative action. But it took a world war and a presidential order to prompt GM to integrate its work force in the early 1940s.