On this day, William B. Gibbs Jr., a Black teacher and principal in Montgomery County, Maryland, filed Gibbs v. Board of Education, challenging unequal pay for Black and white teachers. Backed by the NAACP and argued by Thurgood Marshall, this was the first in a series of landmark legal actions aimed at eliminating wage discrimination in education.
The case led to the end of salary disparities between Black and white teachers in Montgomery County and set a precedent that was used across the South, marking an early legal victory in the broader civil rights movement.
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