An employee of the post office’s bulk mailing facility in Hazelwood was sent home for wearing a t-shirt featuring Malcolm X and the quotation: “By any means necessary.” The facility has always allowed its employees to wear t-shirts with written messages. The complainant had been wearing black-history-related t-shirts, including the one in question, each February for years without incident. After receiving letters from the ACLU of Eastern Missouri, the Postal Service agreed to allow their employee to continue wearing expressive clothing and to pay her for the day at work she missed when she was sent home because of the message on her shirt.