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

by Robert Samuel Smith

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133639
• ISBN13: 9780807133637
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"