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Size | 14 items. |
Abstract | Contains audio and video recordings of interviews with plaintiffs and attorneys who were involved in the 1971 Griggs v. Duke Power Supreme Court case, a landmark employment discrimination case. These oral histories were conducted by Latino American attorney and historian Raymond Caballero in 1991, at the time of the 20th anniversary of the ruling. The case was 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. 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. |
Creator | Caballero, Raymond, 1942- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Patrick Cullom, March 2022
Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, August 2022
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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."
Back to TopContains 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.
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