NAACP LDF Scores 2nd Major Affirmative Action Victory in Detroit Police Cases

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October 12, 1979

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Press Releases, Volume 7. NAACP LDF Scores 2nd Major Affirmative Action Victory in Detroit Police Cases, 1979. b9397eb3-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a290aa9e-ab3c-4c2e-a41a-61b5d73c49f7/naacp-ldf-scores-2nd-major-affirmative-action-victory-in-detroit-police-cases. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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Friday, October 12, 1979 Beth Lief or 

Peter Sherwood 
(212) 586-8397 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND SCORES 2ND MAJOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION VICTORY 

IN DETROIT POLICE CASES 

New York, N.Y. - The NAACP Legal Defense Fund won a unanimous 

opinion in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which over- 

turned a lower court decision that had struck down the affirmative action 

policy adopted by the Cityfor the Detroit Police Department. The case - 

known as the sergeant's case —- was one of two legal challenges by the 

white-dominated Detroit police officer union to the affirmative action plan 

adopted by Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young in 1974 to benefit blacks who had been 

discriminated against in the past by the Police Department. Prior to LDF's 

involvement the City lost the case in the trial court. Today's decision 

came just twelve days after LDF won the other Detroit police case - the 

"lieutenants" case - after a lengthy trial in the District Court for the 

Eastern District of Michigan. 

The white police officers who brought the suit had charged that the 

plan violated the federal and state fair employment acts, and the U. S. and 

Michigan Constitutions. 

Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said 

that the cases, taken together, represent a major and significant advance in 

strengthening and defending affirmative action generally. "They will aid other 

eities and municipalities in devising and implementing affirmative action pro- 

grams that will stand the test of litigation." 

Editors: The NAACP LegaksDefense» Fund isenot part of thé National “Association 

for the Advancement of Colored People. 

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