- Collection:
- Personnel
- Title:
- Mary Jones Hughie to Kathleen Mitchell, September 2, 1939
- Creator:
- Hughie, Mary Jones
- Publisher:
- Fulton County Schools Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1939
- Subject:
- Correspondence surrounding the retirement of Kathleen Mitchell
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Kathleen Mitchell served in the Fulton County School System for over 40 years before retiring from her position as the district's Primary Supervisor the in 1939. Mary Hughie - teacher and principal at Cedar Grove School - sends her regards in September of that year, just as Mitchell resigns. Hughie holds the distinction of being a primary plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a number of female teachers who seek to overturn a board policy that bans them from marrying while an employee. The case was settled in favor of the teachers nine months before this correspondence. Hughie is in the foreground of the photograph.
- Metadata URL:
- https://fcsarchives.omeka.net/items/show/140
- Original Collection:
- FCS Archives, Personnel Collection, Shelf B-3-3, Box 6 Folder 1
- Holding Institution:
- Fulton County Schools Archive
- Rights:
-
