Sometime in the late 1950s, an African-American man known only by the nickname "Fetchit" was forced by Bubba Smith, a white man, to eat a raw hog eyeball at work while Bubba Smith held a razor-sharp knife to his throat. H.S. Camp & Sons, Inc. employed both men. Smith, who was Fetchit's foreman, was not disciplined. In fact, H.S. Camp & Sons, Inc. encouraged its foremen to act much like old South overseers with its black employees to "keep the niggers in line." Twenty years later the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued H.S. Camp in federal court, alleging in its class...
Sometime in the late 1950s, an African-American man known only by the nickname "Fetchit" was forced by Bubba Smith, a white man, to eat a raw hog eyeb...
