COUNTY GEORGE FOX
EDNA P. PAYNE, PRESIDENT OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
ANNAPOLIS, MD.
EDNA E.PERRIE,VICE-PRESIDENT
LOTHIAN , MD. ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND RUTH J. MCNELLY
GEORGE T.CROMWELL FINANCIAL SECRETARY
FERNDALE,MD.
DAVID S.JENKINS
ANNAEOEIS) MD, NOAH A.HILLMAN
ALEXANDER W. ANDREWS SRy
SHADY SIDE,MD.
December 26th, 1940
Mr. O, L. Emerick
Division Supsrintendent
Leesburg, Virginia
My dear Mr. Emerick:
Mills won the case before the United States Dist-
riet Court. In my opinion, the deciding point was that the Board of
Education, without a single exception, had made the colored teachers'!
pay lower then the white, which convinced the Judge that we were dis-
criminating against the colored teachers.
After two days on the stand, the Judge ssked me
e very important question which was as follows: Can you truthfully
say that your best colored teacher is not as good as your poorest
white teacher? I am convinced that my answer to this question con-
vinced the Judge of discrimination. On the whole, I believe that the
white teachers of this County are far superior to the colored teachers
but there are a few exceptionsl colorsd teachers who teach exceptional-
ly well and a few ‘of the white teachers who are below the average and
whose teaching is exceptionally poor. I suppose the same thing exists
in most any of the other counties.
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