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EWP 1-1-2 Yr 1940 Petition by L County Wide League for Equal Salaries.pdf
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TO:
The School Board of Loudoun County, Virginia
Mr. O.L. Emerick, Superintendent of Schools of Loudoun County:
The
Landour County Wide League
, composed of
citizens , residents and taxpayers of Loudoun County, Virginia,
who are interested in the promotion of the educational and civic
welfare of the citizens of Loudoun County in general and of the
Negro citizens in particular, and on behalf of the Negro teachers,
principals and supervisors of Loudoun County, Virginia, do
respectfully petition the Loudoun County School Board and Superintendent of schools as follows:
a. To establish and enforce without regard to race or
color a single salary schedule for the teachers, principals
and supervisors employed in the Loudoun County School System.
b. To take immediate steps to equalize the salaries of
white and Negro teachers, principals and supervisors in
Loudoun County, Virginia having equal qualifications and
experience, and performing essentially the same duties and
services, in keeping with the Constitution and laws of the
State of Virginia and of the United States.
In support of this petition they respectfully show:
1. That the School Board and Superintendent of Schools of
Loudoun County, Virginia, are state agents, maintained for the
purpose of administering the local public educational system in
accordance with the laws and regulations of the State of Virginia
and of the United States;
2. That the Loudoun County School Board is vested with and
exercises the power of fixing and determining the compensation of
all teachers, principals and supervisors in the public schools of
Loudoun County, Virginia; and in the exercise of this power the
said Board has adopted and is applying and enforcing the following
salary schedule:
-2SALARY SCHEDULE FOR PRINCIPALS OF WHITE HIGH SCHOOLS
TWELVE MONTHLY PAYMENTS
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA
BASIC SALARIES
Experience
Salary
None
$115
1 a nd 2 years
120
3 and 4 years
125
5 and 6 years
130
7 and 8 years
135
9 years and over
140
SALARY SCHEDULE FOR WHITE TEACHERS
LOUDOUN COUNTY - TWELVE MONTHS 1 BASIS
Effective from September 1,1938
Previous
experience
in
Years
)
)
CERIFICATES
) Normal
) Collegiate
Elementary ) Professional ) Collegiate ) Professional
None
63
73
77
1 and 2
66
76
80
)
64
79
)
83
)
72
82
86
)
)
)
)
75
85
)
)
)
78
88
3 and 4
5 and 6
7 and 8
9 and
over.
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
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)
1. The salary of each principal of an elementary school will
be determined by adding to the above schedule $5.00 for each
assistant teacher.
2. For the collegiate certificate in the elementary grades
deduct $6. 00 per month and for the collegiate professional
certificate when preparation is for high school work and
assignment is in elementary grades deduct $3.00 per month
from the above schedule.
)
)
89
92
-3SALARY SCHEDULE FOR COLORED TEACHERS
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Salary
Certificate
Experience
Elementary
None to two years
Elementary
Three or more years
60.00
Normal Professional
None to two years
60.00
Normal Professional
Three or more years
65.00
For principals add $5.00 for each assistant.
3. That said salary schedule in its entirety and at every
comparable level provides a higher salary for white teachers,
principals and supervisors than for the Negro teachers, principals,
and supervisors, although these Negro teachers, principals and
supervisors are possessed of equal qualifications and experience
and are performing essentially the same duties as the white
teachers, principals and supervisors; that this differential is
even greater than is indicated on the face of the schedule because
the white teachers, principals and supervisors are paid for twelve
months of the year while the Negroes are paid for only ten months
of the year.
4. That all of the Negro teahcers, principals and supervisors in the public schools of Loudoun County hold teaching
certificates in accordance with the rules of certification of the
Vifginia State Board of Education; that white and Negro teachers,
principals and supervisors must meet the same requirements to receive teachers' certificates from said State Board of Education
and upon qualifying are issued identical certificates.
5. That on June 18,1940, the United States Circuit Court of
APPEals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting at Asheville, North Carolina, in the case of Melvin 0 Alston, a Negro teacher in the City
of Norfolk, Virginia, and the Norfolk Teachers Association, an
organization of Negro school teachers and principals of that city,
against the School Board of the City of Norfolk and C. W. Mason,
$55.00
-4Superintendent of Schools of Norfolk, declared that the maintenance
of a salary schedule which fixes differentials in pay for teachers
and principals of equal qualifications and experience, performing
essentially the same duties and services, when these differentials
are based solely on race or color, is in violation of bothethe
due process and the equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States. On October 28,1940, the
Supreme Court of the United States denied the application of the
Norfolk School Board and its Superintendent for a writ of
certiorari to review said decision.
In making this petition petitioners are cognizant that this
unconstitutional salary differential was not initiated by you and
that the case above referred to is the first pronouncement by a
higher Federal Court that such practice is unconstitutional They
do feel, however, that now since this question has been adjudicated,
you will no longer wish to maintain a practice which not only is
in contravention of our democratic ideals, but which is also unconstitutional; and that you will welcome this opportunity to
change it.
In making this request for a single standard of pay and for the
equalization of salaries petitioners wish to make it clear that it
is not their desire that this fact be accomplished by reduction of
the pay of any of the teachers, principals or supervisors employed
by the Loudóun County School Board.
Respectfully,
Loudour county Wide League
John President W. Wanza
Eva Secretary Sanford
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