LDF Charges Discrimination by Charlotte Trucking Firm

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Press Releases, Volume 4. LDF Charges Discrimination by Charlotte Trucking Firm, 1966. b82f110f-b792-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3b092b5c-1d66-4f62-b27e-7b7084eaf351/ldf-charges-discrimination-by-charlotte-trucking-firm. Accessed May 16, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 2 
New York, N.Y. 10019 C 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and kducational F und 
PRESS RELEASE 

*Hon, Francis’ By Rivers 
Director-Counsel 

k G ’ Jack Greenberg ECR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
June 21, 1966 

“LDF CHARGES DISC 
“BY CHARLOTTE TRUC! 

CHARLOTTE---NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Lawyers today 

filed suit in Federal District Court here against the Observer Trans- 

portation Co., Charlotte, N. C. 

The suit, in behalf of 24 Negro employees of the company, 

was brought under Tit VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title 

VII bars discrimi ation in employment. 

The complaint al} that Negroes are paid lower wages 

than white workers regardless of seniority and Negroes are denied 

opportunities for training and promotion to better paying jobs such 

as foreman, long-haul truck driver and mechanic. 

The Negroes filed a complaint with the Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission March 17. The Commission this month returned 

a finding of reasonable cause to believe discrimination exists, but 

was unable to resolve the situation through conciliation. 

Legal Defense Fund lawyers asked the court to enjoin the 

company from further discriminatory practices, and to grant back 

pay to Negroes who had been discriminatorily denied equal wages. 

Representing the plaintiffs are Legel Defense Dund Director- 

Counsel Jack Greenberg and Leroy Clark of New York, J. Levonne Cham- 

bers of Charlotte and Conrad O, Pearson of Durham. 

a5 Ou 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 Ss

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