Race, Labor, and Civil Rights : Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity /

In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Robert Samuel, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation.
African Americans > Civil rights.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis.
African Americans > Civil rights > United States.
Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race, labor, and civil rights
  • The only thing you had was the labor : a sharecropper's journey through rural North Carolina
  • So we just started pushing : civil rights in North Carolina
  • Phase two; namely, economic freedom : the Title 7 campaign
  • Subtleties of conduct-- play no small part : Griggs at the District Court
  • Faithful to congressional intent : Griggs on appeal
  • This thing isn't all that real.

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