Cracker Barrel pays $8.7m to settle race case.Cracker Barrel This article is about the restaurant-and-store chain. For the unrelated company marketing cheeses bearing the "Cracker Barrel" trademark, see Kraft Foods. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. restaurant chain has agreed to pay $8.7 million to settle allegations that it discriminated against black employees and customers, The suits were filed in 1999 by a dozen employees who allege To state, recite, assert, or charge the existence of particular facts in a Pleading or an indictment; to make an allegation. allege v. they were segregated from white workers and received "back of the house" chores, It also settles claims from 42 plaintiffs (including the NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. ) that black customers were subjected to racial slurs, denied service segregated in smoking sections, or served food taken from the trash. |
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