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Article: Former Air Traffic Controller Alleges Bias at Detroit Airport in Suit.

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May 8, 2001
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By Cecil Angel, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 8--A former air traffic controller at Detroit Metropolitan Airport says she was driven from her job because of the racially hostile environment in the control tower.

Barbara Wright of Oak Park claims in a lawsuit she was denied training given to white employees. Wright, who is black, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Detroit last week against Norman Mineta, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transporation.

Julio Garcia, the regional manager for civil rights for the Federal Aviation Administration's Great Lakes division, said he was not aware of the ...

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