The town of Mason, Tennessee, and the NAACP reached an agreement this week with the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office to settle a lawsuit filed after the state attempted to gain financial control of the majority-Black town.
Highlights
- The town of Mason, Tennessee, and the NAACP reached an agreement this week to settle a lawsuit filed.
- The state attempted to gain financial control of the majority-Black town.
- Officials claimed the state comptroller’s threat to take over was discriminatory.
- The NAACP was representing the town and helped it file a lawsuit alleging that the state had exceeded his authority and racially discriminated against the town.
- The agreement allows the town’s leadership to correct their financial issues themselves without being overseen by the state, the NAACP said on Thursday.
- It was a “great victory” for the town, the National NAACP National President Derrick Johnson called the new agreement “a great victory”