Feb 28
An employee of The Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans is suing her employer over a mural hanging in the hotel that depicts African-American slaves picking cotton.
Deandra Pitman, a 32-year-old African-American massage therapist at the Roosevelt, claimed in a lawsuit filed Monday that the hotel was violating her civil rights because its painting “creates a hostile work environment and subjects her to feeling demeaned and looked down upon,” Courthouse News Service reported.
Scroll down to see the mural that led to the lawsuit.
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