The ACLU of Georgia has teamed up with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to sue a northwest Georgia couple who allegedly evicted a white tenant because she invited an African American woman into her rental home.

The suit, filed Wednesday on behalf of Victoria Sutton, contends that Gordon County landlords Patricia and Allen McCoy used racial epithets and threats—some of which Sutton recorded—when they evicted Sutton from a residence she rented from the couple in Adairsville. Sutton and her family were evicted in December 2018—about three months after she began inviting an African American co-worker with a 5-year-old son over for playdates with Sutton’s two daughters, ages 2 and 9, the suit alleges.