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LEWIS v. BLOOMSBURG MILLS, INC.

No. 79-1001.

608 F.2d 971 (1979)

Sallie Pearl LEWIS, Bertha Banks, Annie F. Calhoun, Thelma Edwards, Hazel Lou Lee, Gladys McIntosh, Alice Rountree, Estella Ware, Jossie Jackson, Janie Belle Ashmore, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Appellants, v. BLOOMSBURG MILLS, INC., a corporation, Abbeville, South Carolina, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Seymour, Robert A. Murphy, Stephen L. Spitz, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

J. Hamilton Stewart, III, J. Frank Ogletree, Jr., Fred W. Suggs, Jr., Greenville, S. C., for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Ten black females filed this class action in 1973 against Bloomsburg Mills, Inc., alleging deprivations of their employment rights protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. In March, 1974, the district court, with the concurrence of counsel for all parties, preliminarily defined the class as black females who have applied for and have been discriminatorily denied...

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