EWP 1 School Briefing 004
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EWP 1 School Briefing 004
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Virginia
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1000497
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2024-01-07
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1000497_EWP_School_Briefing_004.jpg
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Digitized by Edwin Washington Project
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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English
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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Office of
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Richmond
May 27, 1954
Honorable Blake T. Newton, President,
State Board of Education,
Hague, Virginia.
My dear Mr. Newton:
The State Board of Education at its session on this date propounded
the following inquiry upon which it has requested my opinion:
In view of the opinion handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States
on May 17 in the case of Dorothy E. Davis, et al., Appellants, -v- County School
Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, et al., what is the legal vitality and
efficacy of section 140 of the Constitution of Virginia, and the statute enacted
pursuant thereto, providing,-in substance, that white and colored children shall
not be taught in the same schoolf
I am sure the Board is familiar with the opinion of the Suprems Court in .
this case. In its opinion, the Court said:
"We conclude that in the field of public education the
doctrine of %separate but equal? has no place. Separate
educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we
hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom
the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation
complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws
guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. ¥ # 3#n
As an integral part of the Court's conclusion, the follofiing language was
employed: .
"Because these are class actions, bacause of the wide applicability
of this decision, and because of the great variety of local
conditions, the formulation of decrees in these cases presents
problems of considerable complexity. On reargument, the considera-
5 tion of appropriate relief was necessarily subordinated to the
primary question - the constitutionality of segregation in public
. education. We have now announced that such segregation is a denial
of the equal protection of the laws. In order that we may have the
full assistance of the parties in formulating decrees, the cases will
be restored to the docket, and the parties are requested to present
further argument on questions 4 and 5 previously propounded by the :
Court for the reargument this term. ¥ 3 #n '
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: Question 4 referred to by the Court is as follows:
"Assuming it is decided that segregation in public schools violates
the Fourteenth Amendment
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