At 71, she thought the days of Jim Crow and getting bullied for being the only Black kid in school in 1960s Alabama were far behind her – until she wound up in a bank with a fat check in her hand. Lizzie Pugh had won a five-figure slot machine jackpot during a church outing at a casino, and went to the bank to deposit it. But three white bank employees told her the check was fraudulent, Pugh said, and refused to give it back to her. Pugh still gets emotional when she talks about that April day, only now she is armed with a federal lawsuit that she hopes will shed light on what she alleges was blatant racism by employees at Fifth Third Bank in Livonia, Michigan. For more details on what the lawsuit entails, visit the link in bio.