DuPont Promotional Video: Black Engineers

Efforts to recruit Black engineers contributes to conversations about equitable educational opportunities and diversity in the workplace.

This 1970s promotional video describes DuPont's financial assistance program for Delaware Technical and Community College in Wilmington, Delaware. The program allowed minority and female high school students to take engineering courses at DelTech and, when qualified, they received financial assistance for attending Delaware State or University of Delaware. The Black speakers highlighted in this video were successful engineers, and were part of the 1% of engineers at the time who were Black. According to the NSF, only 4% of engineers today are Black, revealing that there remains a significantly disproportionate lack of Black people in the field.

1970 (approximate)

1970s

Wilmington, Delaware

Black people in STEM
Women in STEM
Technical education
Engineering--Education

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

720x480 mp4
1 reel (750 ft.) : sd., col. ; 16mm. (00:01:41:00)

16mm film

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