Enforcing the civil rights act
Subtitle: fighting racism, sexism and the Ku Klux Klan : the story of the Miami EEOC's first class action trial
By: James D. Keeney
Publisher: Civil Rights Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sarasota, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781477498903
Subjects: Discrimination in employment; African Americans; Civil rights; Trials, litigation; Race relations; United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Description: "Sometime in the late 1950s, an African-American man known only by the nickname "Fetchit" was forced by Bubba Smith, a white man, to eat a raw hog eyeball at work while Bubba Smith held a razor-sharp knife to his throat. H.S. Camp & Sons, Inc. employed both men. Smith, who was Fetchit's foreman, was not disciplined. In fact, H.S. Camp & Sons, Inc. encouraged its foremen to act much like old South overseers with its black employees to "keep the niggers in line." Twenty years later the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued H.S. Camp in federal court, alleging in its class action complaint that despite the adoption of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, H.S. Camp's racist policies still had not changed"--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes index.