South Carolina Negro Charges Discrimination in Upgrading

Press Release
July 29, 1965

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  • Press Releases, Volume 3. South Carolina Negro Charges Discrimination in Upgrading, 1965. d1591529-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/e1f4fcc9-f052-4a84-ad15-fb96f25d1ec2/south-carolina-negro-charges-discrimination-in-upgrading. Accessed May 21, 2025.

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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

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