Use Civil Rights Act to Cite Two Georgia Firms for Bias

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Impact area
- Education
Topic
- School Desegregation
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organizations
Matter
- Sheff v. O'Neill
Case
- Sheff v. O'Neill
U.S. state
- Connecticut
Collection
- Case Files
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- 45b65b4e-a346-f011-877a-002248226c06

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Use Civil Rights Act to Cite Two Georgia Firms for Bias, 1965. 6e59d11c-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/69262eb7-5ddf-42eb-8c5f-cb2bd5c4beb8/use-civil-rights-act-to-cite-two-georgia-firms-for-bias. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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

NAACP 

\ “Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

President 

Pye Allan Kalghe Chakacts tiling 
Director-Counsel July 29, 1965 Jack Greenberg 

USE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT TO CITE 
TwWO GEORGIA FIRMS FOR BIAS 

‘Rights Groups Begin to Move Under Title VII 

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Complaints charging two Georgia firms with 

employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were 

filed today with the Eqilal Employment Opportunity Commission, 

The complaints ar the result of investigation by Legal 

Defense Fund Field Worke: Bete uly Whatley, who operates out of 

the Atlanta offices of Hell owell, Ward, Alexander and Moore, fund 

cooperating attorneys at 859% Hunter Street. 

Herbert Hill, NAACP Labor secretary filed the complaints 

in behalf of the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, two 

separate organizations. 

Named in the complaints were Chevrolet Atlanta Division 

and the Southern Railway System, both in Atlanta. 

Chevrolet is charged with denying an assembly line job to 

a Negro on the technicality that he needed dental work. The Negro, 

a high school graduate with two years of technical schooling, con- 

tends that a white applicant for the same job was hired, although 

he too needed dental work. 

An Atlanta man charges the Southern Railway System with 

refusing him equal opportunities for promotion. An employee of 

the railroad for 24 years, he said has been denied opportunity 

to train for promotion to steward. He has worked as a steward 

in the past and the railroad is in apparent need of stewards. 

Complaints were also filed against Southern Bell Telephone 

Co., Columbia, S. C,, and Dupont Co., Avco Co, and Werthan Paper 

Bag Co, all in Nashville, Tenn. rs 

(more) 

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



Use Civil Rights Act To Cite -2- July 29, 1965 

Two Georgia Firms For Bias 
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which became effective 

July 2, forbids discrimination by employers who employ 100 or more 

persons, and by unions with 100 or more members. 

Ten Legal Defense Fund field workers are presently operating 

in southern states to help speed enforcement of the fair employment 

provisions of the act, and educate Negroes to their legal rights 

under the law. 

The field workers cooperate closely with Legal Defense Fund 

attorneys and other civic and civil rights organizations. 

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