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Title
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EWP 1 Distrimination OK
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EWP Distrimination OK
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Tag
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letter, December, 1940, Department of Law, Norfolk, Virginia, salaries, negro teachers, U. S. Circuit Court, ruling, District Court, School Board, City Council
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Place
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Virginia
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Identifier
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1000762
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1000762_EWP_Distrimination_OK.JPG
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1000762_EWP_Distrimination_OK.pdf
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Date Created
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2024-01-07
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2024-07-22 19:27:06 +0000
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6b53a30ecd65db10180a19b9032d98f7d1e36f3ed800eb385c2e0e74ed023206
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9730349fce81dbcac63a736f34e61d14eb087e8383ef0c670c7163e42da2fb48
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c9615a1fe47f619a8406dcffb81218bd2b4ad1219de5e4554b398cd624ed7ce9
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1000762_EWP_Distrimination_OK.JPG
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/jpg to pdf/need to upload or replc files to omeka/1000762_EWP_Distrimination_OK.pdf
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Publisher
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Digitized by Edwin Washington 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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Replaces
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/source/Ingest One/1 Civil Rights/LCPS_African_Educ_Folder/EWP_Distrimination_OK.JPG
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extracted text
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ANDERSON
TTORNEY
N W.OLD,JR.
>.COUPLAND
( ATTORNEYS
DEPARTMENT OF LAW
G OF NORFOLK,VIRGINIA
December 12, 1940
Mr. 0. L. Emerick
Division Superintendent
County School Board
Leesburg, Virginia
Dear Sir:
Pursuant to Supt. Mason's letter of the 10th to
you relative to the adjustment of negro teachers' salaries,
briefly stated, the situation to date is as follows:
1. The second and last suit was brought in the
local U. S. District Court. This Court held the contracts between
the School Board and the teachers to be valid and dismissed the
suit.
5. The teachers appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court
which reversed the District Court and remanded the case to be
tried on its merits.
3, On behalf of the City and the School Board we
petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ
of certiorari, but this was refused.
The effect of the Appellate Court ruling was that
different salaries can be paid to white teachers from those paid
negro tesachers, provided it is not based "solely on race or color".
The Superintendent, Chairman and members of the School
Board stated thet they could give no evidence that the salaries
were not based solely on race or color, and that a trial on its
merits could not be won. Negotiations for settlement therefore
began and it has been agreed with the teachers by the Council and
the School Board that they will adjust the differences based sole-
ly on race and color over a period of three years beginning with
January, 1941. To illustrate: The Chairmen of the School Board
stated it would require $130,000.00. The agreement was that
$30,000.00 would be paid in 1941, $50,000.00 in 1942, or more if
it could be done without raising the tax rate, and the balance
would be provided in 1943, and that in the future differences
would not be made in salaries where "based solely on race or eolor?
