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Title
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EWP 1940 Salaries (15)
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Place
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Virginia
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Identifier
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1000694
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1000694_EWP_1940_Salaries_(15).JPG
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Uncategorized
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Date Created
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2024-01-07
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Pdf Document
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Number
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f41432d1614dd2f4dc2045c3ba9202583b3f2416daf9406b5d1be46eae88126d
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1000694_EWP_1940_Salaries_(15).JPG
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Publisher
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Digitized by Edwin Washingon Project
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Rights
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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Language
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English
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Of fice of the Attorney General
Richmond
November 29, 1940,
Dr, Sidney B. Hall
Superintendent of Public- Instruction,
State Board of LBducatlon,
Richmond, Virginia.
Dear Dr, Hall:
This is in reply to your letter of November lh, request%ng my
opinion upon the question raised by Dr., Joseph H. Saun%@gs, Superlntenéent
of Newport News Public Schools, in his letter to you of November 19, - EBe
asks what effect the decisions of the Federal Courts in the case of Alston,
ot al. v. School Doard of City of Norfoli, 112 Fed. (2d) 992 (certiorari
denied, 61 5. Ct. 75) will have upon the City of lewport News and other
cities and counties in the Comonwealth of Virginia.
In this suit it was alleged by Alston, a Negro school teacher
of Norfolk, Virginia, that the School Board and Superintendent of Schools
of that city, in fixing the salaries of teachers in the public schools of
Norfolk, arbitrarily fix the salarics of Megro tcachers at o lower rate
then that paid to white teachers of equal qualifications and experience,
and performing the same duties and services.
The Circuit Court of Appeals, which was not called upon to de-
cide whether the alleged facts existed, remanded the case to the District
Court with instructions that, if the allegations of the complaint should
be established, the plaint iffs would be entitled to a judgment to the ef-
fect that the discriminatory policy complained of 1s violative of their
rights under the Constitution and to an injunction recstraining defendants
from making eny discrimination on the grounds of race or color in fixing
salarics to be naid school teachers,
This opinion speaks fer itsclf and clearly forbids déscrimination
on the grounds of race or color in fixing salaries to be paid schoeol teachers
in the public schools of the Stete. tUhother this decision will nccessitate
any change in thc differentials in teachers' salarics fixed by any city or
county of the State will depend entircly upon the factual question of whether
cuch diffcrenctials are based upon differences in the qualifications and-
experience of the teachers and the duties and services performcd by them,
or whether they are based upon race or color. This is, of course, primarily
a matter to be determined by the loeal school boards whose duty it is to fix
the salaries of the tegchers.,
With best wishes, I an
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Abram P, Staples,
A+ Aoy Monora’l
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Of fice of the Attorney General
Richmond
November 29, 1940,
Dr, Sidney B. Hall
Superintendent of Public- Instruction,
State Board of LBducatlon,
Richmond, Virginia.
Dear Dr, Hall:
This is in reply to your letter of November lh, request%ng my
opinion upon the question raised by Dr., Joseph H. Saun%@gs, Superlntenéent
of Newport News Public Schools, in his letter to you of November 19, - EBe
asks what effect the decisions of the Federal Courts in the case of Alston,
ot al. v. School Doard of City of Norfoli, 112 Fed. (2d) 992 (certiorari
denied, 61 5. Ct. 75) will have upon the City of lewport News and other
cities and counties in the Comonwealth of Virginia.
In this suit it was alleged by Alston, a Negro school teacher
of Norfolk, Virginia, that the School Board and Superintendent of Schools
of that city, in fixing the salaries of teachers in the public schools of
Norfolk, arbitrarily fix the salarics of Megro tcachers at o lower rate
then that paid to white teachers of equal qualifications and experience,
and performing the same duties and services.
The Circuit Court of Appeals, which was not called upon to de-
cide whether the alleged facts existed, remanded the case to the District
Court with instructions that, if the allegations of the complaint should
be established, the plaint iffs would be entitled to a judgment to the ef-
fect that the discriminatory policy complained of 1s violative of their
rights under the Constitution and to an injunction recstraining defendants
from making eny discrimination on the grounds of race or color in fixing
salarics to be naid school teachers,
This opinion speaks fer itsclf and clearly forbids déscrimination
on the grounds of race or color in fixing salaries to be paid schoeol teachers
in the public schools of the Stete. tUhother this decision will nccessitate
any change in thc differentials in teachers' salarics fixed by any city or
county of the State will depend entircly upon the factual question of whether
cuch diffcrenctials are based upon differences in the qualifications and-
experience of the teachers and the duties and services performcd by them,
or whether they are based upon race or color. This is, of course, primarily
a matter to be determined by the loeal school boards whose duty it is to fix
the salaries of the tegchers.,
With best wishes, I an
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Abram P, Staples,
A+ Aoy Monora’l
