Alston v. School Board of City of Norfolk

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a suit instituted by Melvin O. Alston, a Negro school teacher of Norfolk, Va., and the Norfolk Teachers’ Association, an association composed of the Negro school teachers of that city, against the School Board and the Superintendent of Schools of the city. The purpose of the suit is to obtain a declaratory judgment, to the effect that the policy of defendants in maintaining a salary schedule which fixes the salaries of Negro teachers at a lower rate than that paid to white teachers of equal qualifications and experience, and performing the same…