Negroes File Job Suit Against Wallace Sewing Company

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Press Releases, Volume 3. Negroes File Job Suit Against Wallace Sewing Company, 1966. 330be0a7-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/72f8c23f-f17f-4028-a35b-68c5ae8cb802/negroes-file-job-suit-against-wallace-sewing-company. Accessed January 07, 2026.

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    10 Columbus Cirele 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

: Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

President 

ion. Francis E. Rivers 

pga en FOR RELEASE 
Thursday, 
January 27, 1966 

NEGROES FILE JOB SUIT AGAINST 
WALLACE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY 

North Carolina Employment Drive Continues 

WILMINGTON, N.C.---Attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

today filed federal suit against the Wallace Sewing Machine 

Company, Wallace, N.C., charging employment discrimination under 

the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 

Negro plaintiffs are Annie Lois Brown and Doris Ann McGee 

of Wallace and Gladys Branch and Annie Dolores Rice of Rose 

Hill,&N.C. 

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+ Legal Defense Fund attorneys have asked the U.S, District c 

Court for the Eastern District for a preliminary and permanent™, ia 

injunction restraining the Wallace Company from "maintaining a = 

policy, practice, custom and usage of withholding . . . equal. 

employment opportunities." $ $ 
ee 

The Legal Defense Fund complaint states that the Wallace 

Company maintains an Industrial Training program to train 
prospective employees to be sewing machine operators. re 

Civil rights attorneys assert the company selects people 

from a list drawn up before July 2, 1965. This was the date 

the employment section of the Civil Rights Act went into effect. 

Hence, the names on the list before that time are all 

white, The Negroes applied August 10, 1965. 
Fs 

The Negroes were denied entry into the training program and 

subsequently filed complaints with the Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

The Commission found "reasonable cause” to believe the 

Wallace firm in defiance of Title VII. The sewing concern did 

not show evidence of altering its policies within the time 

period aliotted, 

This cleared the way for today's suit which was filed by 
Defense Fund Attorneys J, LeVonne Chambers of Charlotte, N.C.; 

and Jack Greenberg, Leroy Clark and Alfred Feinberg, of New York 

City. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public ‘ion—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 So

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