Rachel Dolezal Leaves N.A.A.C.P. Post as Past Discrimination Suit Is Revealed
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
June 15, 2015
A few years before she began claiming to be black, an N.A.A.C.P. official who now stands accused of deceiving people about her race apparently sued a historically black university, charging that it had discriminated against her — in part for being white.
On Monday, Rachel A. Dolezal gave up her post as president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in Spokane, Wash., amid a storm of national scrutiny and ridicule. She had said for years that her background was partly black, but last week her parents began telling reporters that she has no black ancestry.
In 2002, Ms. Dolezal received a master of fine arts degree from Howard University, the historically black school in Washington, D.C. That same year, a woman named Rachel Moore, Ms. Dolezal’s married name at the time, filed a lawsuit against Howard, first reported Monday by The Smoking Gun, saying that as a graduate student there she had faced discrimination based on her gender, her pregnancy and her race — white.
A person familiar with the case, who was not authorized to speak for the record, said that Ms. Dolezal and Ms. Moore were one and the same.
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