EWP IMAG0140
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Title
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EWP IMAG0140
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Place
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Virginia
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Identifier
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1043699
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Is Version Of
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1043699_EWP_IMAG0140.JPG
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Is Part Of
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Uncategorized
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Date Created
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2024-01-07
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Format
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Jpeg Image
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Number
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db31e2ecefd90cc90db6ba088d2491c0208caf179b946f12e62279517cff6d79
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Source
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1043699_EWP_IMAG0140.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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extracted text
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these paragraphs hardly admits of argument. The allegation is that
the state, in paying for public services of the same kind and
character to ncn and women cqually qualified accordlng to standards
which thc stote itself prescribes, arbitrarily pays less to Hegrocs
than to white perscns. This is as clcar a discrininaticn on the
ground of race as could well be imagined and falls squarcly with-
in the inhibition of both the due process and. the cqual protection
clauses of the 14th Amendment. As was sold by Mr. Justice Harlan
in Gibson v, Mississippl 162 U,S., 565,591:
"Uncderlying all of those decislons 1s the principle that
the Constituticn of the United States, in its prescent form, forbls,
go far as civil and political rights are concerned, discrimination
by the General Government, or by the States, against any citizen
because of his racc. All citizens are cqual before the law. The
guarantees of life, liberty and property arec for all persons, within
the jurisdiction of thc United States, or of any State, without dis-
crinination against any becausc cf their racc. Thosec guarantces,
when theilr violaticn is properly presentcd in the rogular course
of procecedings, nust be enforced in the courts, both of the Naticn
and of the State, without refcrence to consilerations based upen
race,"
Dcaling with the precise question here involved, Judge
Chestnut, in Mills v, Lowndes 26 F. Supp. 792, 88%L, said:
"While the State nay freely sclcet its employes and
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