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Eight librarians at the AtlantaFulton County Library filed a racial discrimination lawsuit in federal district court August 11 against 13 members of the library board and Director Mary Kaye Hooker. The suit alleges that the eight plaintiffs-seven white women and one African-American woman-were removed from their jobs in the downtown branch in a May 25 reorganization targeting whites in management positions.
The 25-page lawsuit claims that the job shuffling took place after board Chairman William McClure toured the central library and stated that "There are too many old, white women" managers and that the board needed "to get rid of them."
However,...