Implementing Supplier Diversity Driver of Entrepreneurship
This book provides an in-depth view of supplier diversity programs and how they have contributed to the meteoric rise of minority businesses. Incorporating expert advice from supplier diversity practitioners as well as empirical data, it looks at the emer
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IMPLEMENTING SUPPLIER DIVERSITY DRIVER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Implementing Supplier Diversity
Kathey K. Porter
Implementing Supplier Diversity Driver of Entrepreneurship
Kathey K. Porter BusinessFAB Media Gainesville, FL, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-94393-0 ISBN 978-3-319-94394-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94394-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. Corrected publication 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image Ⓒ Artur Debat / Moment / Getty This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
Friday, April 5, 1968, started out like any other school day for me. I took the bus from my Shepherd Park neighborhood in Washington, DC, down Georgia Avenue to Missouri Avenue, where I got off to go to school at Paul Jr. High School. Not long after arriving, however, I realized that this day was like no other. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated the night before in Memphis, Tennessee. By morning, African Americans were in the streets expressing their rage and hopelessness in more than 100 cities across the country. Around 10 a.m., our principal got on the school’s public address system; informed the teachers, staff and students that school was dismissed; and told us that we should try our best to get home safely. By the time we were dismissed, smoke and fires were visible from Georgia Avenue, one of the main arteries running through the heart of the city, from Shepherd Park past Howard University to the National Mall near the White House. The buses had stopped running throughout the city and in their place were military transport vehicles loaded with fully armed National Guardsmen, ready for war. Before this paroxysm of urban re
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