General Motors

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• 3/14/2021
  

  The Women Who Fought Tooth and Nail for the Flint Sit-Down Strikes

  by Edward McClelland

  Genora Johnson and the women of Flint, Michigan were the backbone of the sit-down strike campaigns that secured union recognition at General Motors. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Defender
  1-23-14
  

  GM Foundation Donates $1 Million to Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

  The gift was presented at the Washington Auto Show.

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-5-13
  

  GM had version of OnStar in 1966

  It has been nearly two decades since General Motors introduced OnStar. Since then, it has served as electronic emergency nurse, computerized auto theft detective and binary butler for millions of motorists. Sure, it’s had its problems – as when G.M. decided to make the switch to digital in 2008 and told all the analog customers their equipment would no longer work. But for the most part, it has been a functional system. It must be; OnStar has already cycled through nearly a dozen hardware and software updates over the years.But the idea isn’t even 20 years new. Bet you thought it was, but it isn’t. It existed, floating in the ether, somewhere between press release and reality, for at least 30 years before G.M. released OnStar for real in 1996. According to an old press release from 1966, it was called Driver Aid, Information and Routing system, and was promoted by G.M. as a revolutionary concert of existing technology....