Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applied to any state that used literacy tests and where less than 50% of the voting-age population were registered in the 1964 election. Its major impact was felt in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia, and parts of North Carolina...
According to confidential reports in the EEOC files, there have been several informal complaints of discriminationmade against Mississippi P and L, and at least one case that required a formal EEOC hearing...
...Federal official who made the records available said that several of Middle South's other subsidiary companies have faced discrimination complaints, and that most have hiring records similar to Mississippi...
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and several Executive Orders, the companies are required to report their minority hiring records to the Federal government it they hold Federal contracts of a certain size. Mississippi P and L, for example, has a $706,000 Defense Department contract for work at the Biloxi. Miss. Ajr Force base...
Officials of Middle South and of Mississippi P and L deferred comment on the EEOC hiring report Mississippi P and L's Vice President for Personnel, C. E. Jones, was away from his Jackson office, and his associates did not speculate on how the company's employment might have changed in the last year...