members and the black policy council members against Carter. Admittedly, White and Carter disagreed over such matters as the Head Start Budget and what school should have the training contract for Head Start teachers. However, their disagreements did not warrant White's severe, cruel treatment of Carter. Carter did nothing to merit such treatment.
The evidence therefore reflects that for racial reasons White made the conditions of Carter's employment so intolerable that he, in effect, forced her to retreat to the board and the board's Executive Head Start Finance Committee for relief; and that he, in effect, forced her to set conditions to make her continued stay more tolerable. Carter's conduct was but a reasonable and necessary response toindeed, a product ofWhite's racially discriminatory treatment of her.
White and the agencycontend that the policy council was unwilling to accept Carter's rescission of her resignation because of complaints from Head Start parents and staff. The evidence contains no credible evidence that Head Start parents and staff were dissatisfied with Carter's performance. The evidence is clear that Carter was an efficient and effective director of the Head Start Program; indeed, White himself was unable to point the court to any evidence to the contrary during his testimony. The record does, however, contain considerable evidence of racial animosity by black members of the policy council against Carter. This racial animosity was generated and fanned by White as a part of his scheme to get rid of Carter because of her race. Any unwillingness of the policy council to accept Carter's withdrawal