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'''Walter Lewis Satterlee Mills''' (1908 - 1994) was an educator in the Parole community of Annapolis, Maryland. Principal of Parole Elementary for 46 years, Walter S. Mills helped guide the education of generations of Parole families.
== 1939 Equal Pay Lawsuit ==
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Mills is also noted for his 1939 suit against the Anne Arundel County Board of Education that resulted in equal pay for black principals and teachers. Mills was represented by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall Thurgood Marshall], then a lawyer with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and later a Supreme Court justice.
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Mills joined the Rev. John Chambers Sr. in founding the Community Health Center at Parole. The center has been renovated and expanded over its 80 years and now provides immunizations, reproductive health services and testing for HIV and tuberculosis.▼
== Parole Health Center ==
▲Mills joined the Rev. John Chambers Sr. in founding the Community Health Center at Parole in 1936. The center has been renovated and expanded
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