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Title: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision regarding unlawful employment practices at the Neches station of Gulf States Utilities, August 8, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001210
Topic: Civil Rights, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1968-08-08
Box: 2007-255/168
Folder: 150.28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) decision regarding unlawful employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the Neches Station of Gulf States Utilities. The document lists the Charging Parties vs. Gulf States Utilities Company, Port Neches, TX. A summary of the charge indicates that the Neches station continues to segregate its employees and "employs testing procedures that discriminate against Negroes in violation of Section 703 (a) (1) and (2) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." The Neches station of Gulf State Utilities was in Port Neches, Jefferson County, which was part of Brooks's district.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, June 12, 1961
Identifier: camh-dob-001494
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Governmental Investigations, Organized crime
Dates: 1961-06-12
Box: 2007-255/96
Folder: Judiciary Committee Legislation, Jan.-June 1961
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks replies to constituent Wendell Holloway regarding Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's investigation of organized crime in Beaumont.

Title: Letter from the Director of Compliance for the Equal Employment Opportunity to the Director of Industrial Relations for Gulf State Utilities Company, Neches station, August 24, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001209
Topic: Civil Rights, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1968-08-24
Box: 2007-255/168
Folder: 150.28
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a letter from Robert L. Randolph, Director of Compliance for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to William E. Heaner, Jr., Director of Industrial Relations at the Neches Station branch of Gulf State Utilities. The letter informs them that the EEOC has reasonable cause to believe that they have engaged in unlawful employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A copy of the Commission Decision is enclosed with the letter [camh-dob-001210]. Randolph informs Heaner that a conciliator will contact the parties to discuss means of correcting the discrimination and avoiding it in the future. The Neches Station of Gulf State Utilities was in Port Neches, Jefferson County, which was part of Brooks's district.