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EEOC, Lockheed Settle Race Case

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 3, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday its largest-ever settlement for an individual racial discrimination case, $2.5 million, against Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md.

Lockheed agreed to pay Charles Daniels, a black aviation electrician who claimed he was subjected to racial epithets and threatened with harm by white workers while repairing military aircraft.

Daniels, 45, "was the target of persistent verbal abuse by co-workers and a supervisor whose racial slurs and offensive language included calling him the 'n word,' and saying, 'We should do to blacks what Hitler did to the Jews,' and if the South had won then this would be a better country," the EEOC said in a statement. "Daniels was also subjected to multiple physical threats, such as lynching and death threats."

The harassment and threats took place at Lockheed plants in Florida, Washington state and Hawaii.

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