Woman who fought married teacher ban in Fulton County dies at 89
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Posted 3:10PM on Tuesday 14th January 2003 ( 22 years ago )
EAST POINT - The College Park woman who successfully sued Fulton County over its policy in the 1930s banning married women from teaching has died. Mary Louise Jones Hughie was 89. <br>
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Hughie died of cardiac arrhythmia Saturday at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta. Funeral services were Tuesday. <br>
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Hughie was fired from a teaching job at a Fulton County public school after she got married. <br>
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Backed by the Fulton County Teachers Association, she won a lawsuit against the school board. She went on to teach and be a principal at several county schools. <br>
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Survivors include two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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