EWP IMAG0153
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EWP IMAG0153
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Virginia
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1043712
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2024-01-07
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e4e940a529bc55f27933100741c24fa577786ac1b77baf06e673cebaeb4a1f68
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1043712_EWP_IMAG0153.JPG
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Digitized by Edwin Washingon 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
November 29, 1940,
Dr, Sidney B, Hall
Superintendent of Public-Instruction,
State Board of Lducation,
Richmond, Virginia,
Year pr. Hall:
o This is in reply to your letter of November 14, requesting my
opinion upon the question raised by Dr. Joseph H, Saunders, Super intendent
of Newport News Public Schools, in his letter to you of November 13, He
asks what effect the decisions of the Federal Courts in the case of Alston,
et al., v. School Board of City of Horfolk, 112 Fed. (2d4) 992 (certiovari
denied, 61 S. Ct. 75) will have upon the City of liewport News and other
cities and counties in the Commonwcalth of Virginia,
In this suit it was alleged by Alston, 2 Negro schecol teacher
of Norfolk, Virginia, that the School Board and Superintendent of Schools
of that-city, in fixing the salaries of teachers in the public schools of
Norfolk, arbitrarily fix the salaries of Negro teachers at o lower rate
then that paid to white teachers of equal qualifications and experience,
and performing the same duties and services,
The Circuit Court of Appeals, which was not called upon to de-
cide whether the alleged facts existed, remanded the case to the District
Court with instructions that, if the allegations of thc complaint should
be established, the plaint iffs would be entitled to a judgment to the ef-
fect that the discriminatory policy complained of is violative of their
rights under the Constitution and to an injunction restraining defendants
from making any discrimination on the grounds of race or color in fixing
sglaries to be naid school teachers.
This opinion speaks for itsclf and clearly forbids déscrimination
on the grounds of race or color in fixing salaries to bc paid schocl teachers
in the public schools of the Stete. Thether this decision will nccessitate
any change in thc differentials in teachers' sa arics fixced by any city or
county of the State will depend entircly upon the factual question of whether
such diffcrenctials are pbased upon diffcrences in the qualifications and
experience of the teachers and the dutiecs and services performed by t@em,.
or whether they are based upon race or color. This is, of course, prlmarl}y
a matter to be determined by the locsl school boards whose duty it is to fix
the salaries of the teachers.
With best wishes, 1 am
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Abram P. Steples,
Attorney Genoral
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