It sounds like a dark chapter from a 1950s history book: Black workers barred from the main building, forced to enter only through a back door and segregated bathrooms in Tennessee. But according to a new federal lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, this wasn’t Jim Crow-era Memphis…it was 2022.
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The EEOC accused StoneMor GP, LLC, a subsidiary of Everstory Partners who owns over 40 funeral homes and cemeteries in the U.S., of discriminating against Forest Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park’s Black workers. The complaint, filed on Feb. 6, alleged the cemetery’s area maintenance director Heath Fairfax and funeral director Brad Shooks—both white— of locking bathrooms in an effort to segregate the facilities in May 2022…