South Carolina Negro Charges Discrimination in Upgrading
Press Release
July 29, 1965
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PRESS RELEASE
De: Alla: Kulght Chaliters FOR RELEASE
we Thursday
July 29, 1965
SOUTH CAROLINA NEGRO CHARGES
DISCRIMINATION IN UPGRADING
"Rights Groups Begin to Move Under Title VII
WASHINGTON--A Negro employee of the Draper Corporation's East
Spartanburg Plant today filed a complaint with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission here charging discrimination in upgrading.
The complaint was filed in his behalf by the NAACP ent the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, following investigations by Marvin E.
Maynor, Legal Defense Fund field worker stationed at the NAACP.
headquarters, 2022 Taylor Street, Columbia. 3!
The two organizations are conducting a drive to speedyenf orce~
ment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the section designed to
end employment discrimination by firms hiring more than ib workers.
Ten Legal Defense Fund field workers are presently &ngaged
in a program across the south. The field workers cooper te: closely
with NAACP chapters and other civic and civil rights organizations.
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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487