Librarian suspended after vexing white-rights group.

A Jacksonville (Fla.) Public Library branch manager has been suspended without pay for 10 days after strenuously objecting to a February 25 apology letter that then-acting director of libraries Sylvia Cornell sent to the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP). Cornell's letter offered regrets that staff "unnecessarily disrupted" the group's February 19 use of JPL's Highlands branch meeting room by attending the session.

At issue is whether, as Branch Manager Patricia Doyle contends, her suspension springs from the city's fear of a First Amendment lawsuit or whether, as Jacksonville general counsel J. Clay Meux Jr. told American …