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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

Raymond Gavins
Raymond Gavins
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
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Established by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, EEOC receives and investigates charges of employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, or gender identity. Besides its commissioners and staff, it consists of state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies. It monitors workplaces with twenty-five or more employees, including labor unions, educational institutions, and governments. It can recommend that the Department of Justice file antidiscrimination suits. Clifford L. Alexander, its first black chairman, was appointed in 1967.

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The Cambridge Guide to African American History , pp. 91 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Overcoming the Past, Focusing on the Future: An Assessment of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Enforcement Efforts. Washington, DC: US Commission on Civil Rights, 2000.
Smith, Robert Samuel. Race, Labor & Civil Rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.Google Scholar

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