Negro Newspaper Man Sues Local Publishing Company

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Negro Newspaper Editor Sues Because of Employment Discrimination at the Memphis Publishing Company in Tenn.

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Negro Newspaper Man Sues Local Publishing Company, 1968. dcd77f22-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b9076bf2-fb7c-4e93-86fc-d9a22e1b5eec/negro-newspaper-man-sues-local-publishing-company. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 
J 

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

ees 

President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEA Director-Counsel 

egal efense und 
Jack Greenberg 

Di , Publie Relations 

DeVore, Jr. 
wight NUMBER 212-749-8487 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

November 27, 1968 

NEGRO NEWSPAPER MAN SUES 

LOCAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 

Legal Defense Fund: Attorney Pleads Charge 

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE--A Negro newspaper editor today began a suit 

against Memphis publishing Company- publisher of this city's two 

major mewspapers, The Memphis Press Semitar and The Commercial 

Appeal. 

Both papers belong to the nation-wide Scripps-Howard 
syndicate. 

Mccann L. Reid, an editor for the pri-state Defender, 2 local 

Negro paper, charges that Memphis Publishing Company refused to 

hire him because of his race and religion. 

His suit was filed in federal court here by Lewis Lucas, a co- 

operating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 

Fund, Inc- (LDF) - 

According to attorney Lucas, Memphis Publishing Company officials 

told Mr. Reid they could not jire him because he is a Seventh Day 

Adventist and therefore could not work saturdays. 

However, an investigation 
by the Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission (EEOC) revealed that the company had hired a white 

man of Mr. Reid's faith to do the same job for which Mr. Reid 

jad applied. 

In the suit filed today, attorney Lucas is asking that Mr. 

Reid be employed by the company as 4 copy reader, the position 

for which he applied. 

He is also asking that his client receive back pay from the 

date of his application and that his salary be raised to what ae 

would be now had the company not refused to hire him. 

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once 4 part of the National Association 

for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it now is 

a separate organization, 
even though the initials are 

retained in its title.

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