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[Identification of item], in the Raymond Caballero Interviews on the Griggs v. Duke Power Case #70119, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Raymond Caballero in March 2022 (Acc. 20220316.3).

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• African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina.
• African Americans--Employment--North Carolina.
• Caballero, Raymond, 1942-
• Discrimination in employment--United States--Cases.
• Discrimination in employment--United States.
• Duke Power Company.
• Labor laws and legislation--United States.
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• Oral history.

Raymond Caballero (b. 1942) is a Latino American attorney and historian. From 2001 to 2003, he served as mayor of El Paso, Tex. He has published two books: McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks and Orozco: Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary.

The 1971 Griggs v. Duke Power Supreme Court case is a landmark employment discrimination case brought against Duke Power Company by thirteen Black men who were employed as janitors at Duke Power's Dan River hydroelectric power plant in Draper, N.C., to challenge discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. According to Caballero, the Griggs case "was to employment law what Brown v. Board was to school desegregation."

Contains audio and video recordings of interviews with plaintiffs and attorneys who were involved in the 1971 Griggs v. Duke Power Supreme Court case. Raymond Caballero interviewed several of the plaintiffs, Julius Chambers (lead attorney, working on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), Kelly Alexander, Jr. (the son of the state president of the NAACP at the time of the case), and attorneys who represented Duke Power. Whereas there are other interviews with the civil rights leaders (Chambers and Alexander), these may be the only extant recordings of the plaintiffs telling their stories in their own words.

• Audiotapes (C-70119/1-9)
• Videotapes (VT-70119/1-5)