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A federal racial discrimination lawsuit that led to the downfall of Buford City Schools Superintendent Geye Hamby in 2018 has officially ended after the school district and a former paraprofessional who claimed she had been wrongly fired reached a settlement in the case. The case was filed in U.S. District Court in 2018 by former district employee Mary Ingram, who claimed she was retaliated and discriminated against in retaliation for going to the districtâs school board in 2014 to ask that the color gold be added to the color scheme at Buford Arena as a nod to an old African-American school that existed in the city before the desegregation of Bufordâs schools in 1969. Lawyers for Ingram asserted in the lawsuit that she had been fired âwithout any justification.â ....
A racial discrimination lawsuit between Buford City Schools and a former school employee has been settled in court. According to a report from the Gwinnett Daily Post, court records show that the school system settled earlier this month with former paraprofessional Mary Ingram, who filed the lawsuit. The case went into court-ordered mediation before its settlement. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in court documents. Ingram claimed that she was fired following a disagreement with Hamby over the school district’s colors. Ingram wanted the color gold to be included because it represented the city’s Black school district before its integration in 1969. ....