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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.