Media
Coverage of the Tyson Case
Several national and international media outlets have
covered this lawsuit. A sampling of this news coverage
appears below:
- Aina
Hunter, Chicken Money: Tyson Foods Donate to
Congressional Black Caucus, THE VILLAGE VOICE,
Sept. 23, 2005, available at
http://villagevoice.com/news/0539,hunter,68178,2.html.
- Andrew
Buncombe, U.S. Poultry Giant Under Fire After
Segregation Scandal is Revealed, THE INDEPENDENT,
Sept. 16, 2005, available at
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article312981.ece.
- Black
Factory Workers Sue for 'Segregation,
THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, Sept. 17, 2005.
- CNN
Daybreak 5:00 a.m. EST, CNN, Aug. 12, 2005.
- Tyson
Foods Inc.: U.S. Equal-Opportunity Suit Says Plant
Segregated Restroom, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL,
Aug. 12, 2005.
- Tyson
Says No Evidence of Whites Only Sign
at Ashland Plant, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug.
12, 2005.
- Deborah
Barfield Berry, Whites Only Sign
Stirs a Suit, Black Workers Take Action After Notice
Allegedly Put on Bathroom Door at Alabama Tyson
Plant, NEWSDAY, Aug. 19, 2005.
- EEOC
Sues Tyson Over Alleged Race Discrimination,
DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE, Aug. 11, 2005.
- Tyson
Foods Denies Racial Discrimination After Suit,
REUTERS NEWS, Aug. 13, 2005.
- Tyson
Foods Sued for Race Bias and Retaliation Against
Blacks; Whites Only Restroom at Issue,
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, Aug. 12, 2005.
- Michael
Cottman, Black Employees Sue Tyson Foods for
Maintaining Whites Only Restroom,
BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM, Aug. 30, 2005, available at
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/tysonfoods831.
- Ed
Wiley III, Tysons Gets Fried Over Alleged
Discrimination, BET, Aug. 22, 2005, available
at http://www.bet.com/News/TYSONFRIED.htm.
- Roy
L. Williams, EEOC sues Tyson over Whites
Only, BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Aug. 12, 2005 at
1B.
- T.J.
DeGroat, After Whites Only Bathroom
Charge, Tyson Foods Tells DiversityInc Its Story,
DIVERSITYINC, Sept. 12, 2005.
- Rob
Jordan, Lawsuits Allege Racially Hostile
Climate at Ashland Tyson Plant, ANNISTON STAR,
Aug. 13, 2005.
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