Racial Discrimination Complaint Filed Against Miss. State Employment Agency

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July 29, 1965

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

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President FOR RELEASE 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Thursday 
Director-Counsel July 29, 1965 

Jack Greenberg 

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT FILED 
AGAINST MISS, STATE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY 

*"Rights Groups Begin to Move Under Title VII 

WASHINGTON, D,C.--The Mississippi State Employment Agency at 

Jackson was charged with racial discrimination in a complaint 

filed here today with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

The complaint was filed by a 21-year-old Negro woman through 

Earl L, Harris, a NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund field 

worker stationed in Jackson. 

The agency is charged with giving preferential treatment to 

white job-seekers in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights 

Act of 1964, 

The complaint was one of 24 involving seven southern states 

filed jointly by the National Association for the Advancement of 

Colored People and the Legal Defense Fund, two independent 

organizations. 

Herbert Hill, NAACP labor secretary, delivered the complaints 

to the commission, 

A summer project to implement the fair employment provisions 

of the Civil Rights Act is presently underway in 10 southern states. 

Harris, a Howard University law student, is working out of 

offices of Marian Wright at 5394 Farrish Street, Jackson, in 

connection with the summer project. Ke 

Title VII, which took effect July 2, forbids job 

discrimination by employers with 100 or more workers, unions with 

100 or more members, and employment agencies. 

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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Inf i ‘Night Number 212 RI ide 9-8487

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