Equal Employment and Job Discrimination (Telegram)

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Equal Employment and Job Discrimination (Telegram), 1968. 88a265b4-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/46bb8bbd-4677-4ac3-824e-8044aa42e798/equal-employment-and-job-discrimination-telegram. Accessed July 20, 2025.

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Mr. John Garcia, Bureau Manager, UPI, Liberty Life Bldg., Rm. 1201, 112 South » 

Tryon St., Charlotte, N. C. 28202 

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Mr. Carl K. Bell, Bureau Chief, AP, 721 South Tryon St., Charlotte, N.C. 28202 

i(% NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund 
mm 10 Columbus Circle, NYC 10019 

June 4, 1968 

LDF ATTORNEYS WILL FILE A COMPLAINT IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE 

DISTRICT OF N.C. IN WINSTON-SALEM ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. AN INJUNCTION IS 

BEING SOUGHT TO RESTRAIN THE DEFENDENTS FROM MAINTAINING A POLICY OF DISCRIM- 

INATION AGAINST THE PLAINTIFFS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR CLASS BECAUSE OF THEIR 

RACE WITH RESPECT TO COMPENSATION, TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND PRIVILEGES OF EM- 

PLOYMENT OR BY UNITING, SEGREGATING, AND CLASSIFYING THESE PERSONS IN WAYS 

WHICH DEPRIVE THEM OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OR OTH#RWISE ADVERSELY AFFECT 

THEIR EMPLOYMENT STATUS. THIS IS ALSO A PROCEEDING FOR A DECLATORY JUDGEMENT 

THAT THE DEFENDENT'S POLICY IS VIOLATIVE OF RIGHTS SECURED BY TITLE VII OF 

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, THE CASE OF HARBRSTROM, ET AL. V. MCLEAN TRUCK- 

ING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF WINSTON-SALEM NORTH CAROLINA, AND INTERNATIONAL 

BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSIERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN A ELPERS OF AM! Ay 

LOCAL B91, GREENSBORO, N. C., IS THE FIRSY TRUCKING CASE WHERE THE TEAMSTERS 

HAVE BEEN JOINED AS DEFENDENIS. THE UNION HAS FAILED TO PROTEST THE UNLAWFUL 

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES OF THE COMPANY, HAS OPPOSED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FORMA- 

LIZED TRAINING PROGRAMS, AND HAS BEEN A PARTY TO AND ACTED IN CONCERT WITH 

THE COMPANY IN ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING THE DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES COM- 



PLAINED OF. THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. (LDF) IS ASKING 
THAT THE PLAINTIFFS BE GRANTED AN INJUNCTION ENJOINING DEFENDENDS. FROM CON- 
DUCTING OR MAINTAINING ANY POLICY, DENYING, ABRIDGING, WITHHOLDING, LIMITING, 
OR OTHERWISE INTERFERING WITH THE RIGHTS OF PLAINTIFFS TO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 
OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING EQUAL RATES OF PAY, TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND PRIVILEGES 
OF EMPLOYMENT AS WHITE PERSONS SIMILARLY SITUATED - WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE OR 
COLOR, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT LDF ATTORNEY ADAM STEIN IN CHARLOTTE, 
NG, 704-375-8461 

Barbara Fishman $ 
Assistant Director of Public Information ~ 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,, - 

ang. 
10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N. Y. 10019 

NOTE; The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is a separate 
and distinct organization from the NAACP.

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