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In this 2011 photo released by the New York-based law firm Valli Kane & Vagnini, a noose is seen inside Louisiana-based oil services company Turner Industries Group LLC. About 230 current and former employees at the company have filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying they were forced to work in facilities where racist graffiti, slurs and discrimination are commonplace. (AP Photo/ Valli Kane & Vagnini)
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230 current and former employees at Turner Industries Group, have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Louisiana-based oil services company, claiming that they were forced to work in facilities where slurs, discrimination, and racist graffiti were passed off without concern.
The company, which is headquartered in Baton Rouge, denied any wrongdoing in the case.
Black employees said that they have been complaining to company officials for more than a decade about racist symbols in their workplace, including hung nooses, segregated bathrooms, racial slurs, and unequal treatment in Louisiana and Texas. Company supervisors, according to the workers, ignored the complaints or in some cases, retaliated against the workers for complaining.
Yvonne Turner, who worked for the company in both states, told the Associated Press, that she arrived to work one day to find a protective suit stuffed, tagged with her name, and hung from a noose.
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Lynching Cold Case: Awaiting Justice
On July 25, 1946, a white mob dragged George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcom and Dorothy Malcom from a car, tied them up and shot them at Moore's Ford Bridge outside of Monroe. Above, victims' relatives Annie Smith, left, and Rosa Ingram visit the site in 2005.
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Lynching Cold Case
On July 25, 1946, a white mob dragged George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcom and Dorothy Malcom from a car, tied them up and shot them at Moore's Ford Bridge outside of Monroe. Above, victims' relatives Annie Smith, left, and Rosa Ingram visit the site in 2005.
Lynching Cold Case
Federal and Georgia state investigators said they have gathered new evidence in a 62-year-old lynching case involving the grisly slaying of two black couples. Here, a coroner stands between two of the victims' bodies in Monroe, Ga., on July 26, 1946, the day after the lynchings.
Lynching Cold Case
State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, right, a longtime advocate for prosecution in the case, said there are a handful of suspects who are still alive. "We're encouraged and optimistic that we're getting closer to seeing justice done and the rule of law upheld and respected," he said. Here, Brooks appears at a press conference about the lynchings in 2005.
Lynching Cold Case
After the lynching, President Harry Truman, above, dispatched federal agents to Monroe. No one was ever charged, despite federal and state investigations citing 55 suspects.
Lynching Cold Case
Sharpton, Brooks and other civil rights activists have participated in rallies to draw attention to the case. At one such event held on the 59th anniversary of the slayings in 2005, actors staged a reenactment of the lynchings. Here, actors portray the victims as members of the mob prepare to shoot them.
Lynching Cold Case
Other decades-old lynching cases have had developments in recent years. In May 2004, the Justice Department reopened the investigation into the death of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955. In 2005, his body was exhumed and an autopsy was performed. A grand jury later declined to indict the woman allegedly involved, essentially closing the books on the case.
Lynching Cold Case
In June 1964, civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, left, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were abducted, killed and buried in rural Neshoba County, Miss. Seven Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted in the case in 1967, but none served more than six years in prison. The case was later reopened, and on the 41st anniversary of the killings in 2005, a jury found former Klansman Edgar Ray Killen guilty on three counts of manslaughter.
Lynching Cold Case
"I'm fed up. I'm tired," she said after a news conference held with local civil rights leaders. "We're not here trying to get money. We're not here trying to cause trouble. We're here for justice."
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