Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, Mississippi P and L faced an EEOC hearing on charges of "discriminatory job assignment, discriminatory hiring, discriminatory promotions, and segregated facilities." According to the hearing record, the case was dismissed after "successful conciliation with the company...
...Meanwhile, civil rights groups in Mississippi have protested statements made by the Mississippi P and L management...
After EEOC reports released last week showed that Mississippi P and L had a 4.5 per cent black work force, the company's vice president for personnel, C. E. Jones, defended its hiring practices...
Jones pointed out that Mississippi P and L was "working closely" with several black colleges in the area, that it had started a special program to train black workers, and that it had offered jobs to qualified blacks, 12 of whom had turned the jobs down last year...
Alex Waites, a regional director of the NAACP, said yesterday in Jackson that Jones' comments were "totally misleading." He challenged the claim that Mississippi P and L had started a training program, and he accused the company of bad faith in its work with local colleges...