Fair Employment Practices Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Labor
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 740
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States Commission on Civil Rights
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 14
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arvil V. Adams
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Samuel Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0807134813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 decision Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, finding such employment practices violated Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they disparately affected minorities. In doing so, the court delivered a significant anti-employment discrimination verdict. Legal scholars rank Griggs v. Duke Power on par with Brown v. Board of Education (1954) in terms of its impact on eradicating race discrimination from American institutions. In Race, Labor, and Civil Rights, Robert Samuel Smith offers the first full-length historical examination of this important case and its connection to civil rights activism during the second half of the 1960s. Smith explores all aspects of Griggs, highlighting the sustained energy of the grassroots civil rights community and the critical importance of courtroom activism. Smith shows that after years of nonviolent, direct action protests, African Americans remained vigilant in the 1960s, heading back to the courts to reinvigorate the civil rights acts in an effort to remove the lingering institutional bias left from decades of overt racism. He asserts that alongside the more boisterous expressions of black radicalism of the late sixties, foot soldiers and local leaders of the civil rights community -- many of whom were working-class black southerners -- mustered ongoing legal efforts to mold Title 7 into meaningful law. Smith also highlights the persistent judicial activism of the NAACP-Legal Defense and Education Fund and the ascension of the second generation of civil rights attorneys. By exploring the virtually untold story of Griggs v. Duke Power, Smith's enlightening study connects the case and the campaign for equal employment opportunity to the broader civil rights movement and reveals the civil rights community's continued spirit of legal activism well into the 1970s.
Author: National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 176
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Commerce Clearing House
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Brooke Graves
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herbert Hill
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780299105945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the period from the abolition of slavery through the events that preceded and affected the adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Black Labor and the American Legal System examines the major legislative and legal developments relating to the employment discrimination. The historical consequences of the racial practices of employers and organized labor, as well as of the federal government, are analyzed within the context of law and social change. The evolution of federal labor policy is traced through key decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and the courts as they have interpreted the application of labor law to racial discrimination.