EWP IMAG0141
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Title
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EWP IMAG0141
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Place
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Virginia
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Identifier
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1043700
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Is Version Of
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1043700_EWP_IMAG0141.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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5f013751d647138b56c0842e88b3703c71068489cce6b8893258693d5fd9092e
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Source
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1043700_EWP_IMAG0141.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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and of the State, without refcrence to consllieratlons dascec upcn
race."
Dcaling with the precise question here involved, Judge
Chestnut, in Mills v. Lowndes 26 F. Supp. 792, 801, said:
"Whilc the State nay freely sclcet its employes and
detcrnine their compensation it would, in ny opinion, be clearly i
unconstituticnal for o state to pass lcgislation which inmposed
discriminatory burdens on the celored race with respeect to their
qualifications for office or prescribe a rate of pay less than that
for other OlPSSOS solely on aucount cf race or color If therefone
the state lwws proscribc1 that colo;o' teacho s of vc;upl qualification
with white toachers shoul? reccive less conpensation cn account of
their color, such a law would cleerly be unccnstituticnal." |
In the later case of iills v. Board of Educatlion of Ann :
Arundel County 30 F .Supp. 245, Juilge Chestnut applied the principle
so stnted in holding that a discrinination as to pay of tcachers in
white and colorcd schools was violative of thoe constitutional pro-
vision, and that a colored teacher night invoke the power of the
court so toc ceclare. This we think is in sccord with a long line of
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sresiyent
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