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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: March 11, 2017
Caption: Gibbs Street
Additional Description: Gibbs Street is named for William Gibbs, the principal of the Rockville Colored Elementary School, who in 1937 with his attorney Thurgood Marshall challenged Montgomery County's policy of paying black teachers half what they paid white teachers. Montgomery County settled and black teachers thereafter earned equal pay. Gibbs, however, was fired.
Submitted: March 17, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p377394
File Size: 0.945 Megabytes

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