The facility in question is the subject of a recent lawsuit where the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing found evidence of the Fremont factory segregating their black workers into different, more manually intensive jobs than the rest. The places which the black workers were forced into were allegedly called the “plantation,” and “the slave ship.”
Sam Barnett is a junior and a second-year staff member and News Editor for the Statesman. Barnett is involved in the LHS Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Track and Field, SNHS and MNHS. Some of...