Employment Discrimination Suit Against Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and Air Force Base

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November 3, 1975

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Employment Discrimination Suit Against Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and Air Force Base, 1975. fe064426-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/719de463-4123-4007-b30c-5e96be2fbed6/employment-discrimination-suit-against-warner-robins-air-logistics-center-and-air-force-base. Accessed May 12, 2025.

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From: Norman Bloomfield 
NAACP Legal De mse and Educational Fund, Inc. 

10 Columbus Circle 
New York, 

Telephone: 

Contact: 

NEW YORK, 

New York 10019 

212 586-8397 

Bill Lee or Steve Ralston 
212 586-8397 

Bernice Turner 
912 746-5618 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

N.¥., Nov. 3 - The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund announced today that it is suing the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, 

Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Ga. in an attempt to halt discriminatory 

employment policies and practices which adversely affect more than 3,000 

black civilian workers employed at the facility. 

The class 

not only charges 

action suit, filed in the federal district court in Macon, 

that the Logistics Center discriminates against black 

applicants and minority employees seeking advancement, but that black 

employees who protest against discriminatory practices are subject to 

continuing harassment and reprisals. 

The complaint additionally charges that the facility employs 

disproportionately few minority workers and largely restricts black 

employees to lower positions and income levels. As a result, upper level 

and supervisory jobs are virtually all-white, Legal Defense Fund lawyers 

assert. 

The Logist ics Center is the single largest employer in the Macon 

metropolitan area, which is more than 30 per cent black. The facility 

draws 15 per cent of its employees from the black population -- with blacks 

comprising four per cent of all office workers and 27 per cent of the blue 

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collar labor force. Minority office and blue collar workers, however, 

remain overwhelmingly in the lowest employment grades. 

The suit contends that the Logistics Center withholds information 

from black applicants regarding job vacancies traditionally held by white 

employees; refuses to hire minority workers for better paying positions; 

utilizes non job-related selection tests and subjective personnel 

evaluations, unequally and differentially, to screen out qualified black 

workers; and restricts training and promotional opportunities. 

Also named as defendants in the suit are officials of the Department 

of the Air Force and the United States Civil Service Commission who are 

responsible for employment practices at the Center. 

The Legal Defense Fund now has more than 30 lawsuits against 

federal agencies and the Civil Service Commission which charge race and 

sex discrimination in federal employment. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a completely 

separate organization, even though established by the NAACP in 1939. It 

has not been affiliated with the founding Association for more than 20 years. 

The correct designation is NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 

frequently shortened to Legal Defense Fund. The organization has a national 

staff and headquarters in New York City and works with 400 cooperating 

attorneys throughout the country.

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