The woman who resigned as head of a civil rights group after being "outed" as white by her parents sued a university for discriminating against her for being white, according to a report by The Smoking Gun website.
Rachel Dolezal, 37, has stepped down as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in Spokane, Washington, after it was revealed she had pretended to be black for several years.
But she reportedly sued historically black Howard University in 2002, alleging she was denied a scholarship and teaching post because she was white.
Dolezal graduated from Howard that same year with a degree in fine arts, but claimed in the suit that the university was "discriminatory", and preferred black applicants to their white counterparts, according to the report.
Court documents name the plaintiff in the suit as Rachel Moore. Dolezal's spouse at the time was named Kevin Moore.
