A white professor and civil rights leader is under fire for claiming she was black..Spokane's NAACP (National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People)Chapter President Rachel Dolezal, has been
misleading people about her
ethnicity for years.
Dolezal, who has been a civil rights activist across Idaho and Washington and works part-time as an
Africana Studies professor at Eastern Washington University, is now facing a city ethics probe for falsely claiming on an
application that she was black.
Her parents, who are estranged from their daughter, say they first found out she was claiming to be African
American as they read a newspaper article about her 'some years ago'.They say they are Czech, Swedish and German..
They have also claimed that she cut them out because she didn't want
them ruining her image.Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal spoke from their home
in Troy, Montana on Friday ..Her mum told CNN