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Superintendent of Schools of Norfolk, declared that the maintenance
of a salary schedule which fixes differentials in pay for teachers,
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essentially the same duties and serviees, when these differentials
are based solely on race or color, is in violation of bothethe
due process and the gonal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States. On October 28,1940, the
gupreme Court of the United States denied the application of the
Norfolk School Beard and its Superintendent for a writ of
certiorari to review said decision.
ition petitioners are cognigant that this
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unconstitutional salary differential was not initiated by you and
that the case above referred to is the first pronouncement by a
hicher Federal Court thet such practice is unconstitutional., They
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do feel, however, that nov since this question:
you will no longer wish to maintain a practice which not only 1is
in contravention of our democratic ideals, but which 1s also un-
constitutional; and that you will welcome this opportunity to