A former senior staff member of the NAACP has claimed that the storied civil rights group and its president and CEO, Derrick Johnson, violated the Family Medical Leave Act by demoting her following a medically necessary month away from work.

Abeni Bloodworth alleged in her filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that Johnson first demoted, and later fired, as retaliation for her taking a month off to recover from a blood clot in June.