Cadillac's Policy Change

Cadillac's Policy Change

In the early 1930s, Cadillac had a policy of not selling cars to black people. However, in 1933, Nicholas Dreystadt, a middle manager at General Motors, crashed a GM executive committee meeting and convinced them to drop the policy and instead market to black people. Within a year, sales increased by 70%.

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