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'''Walter Lewis SatterleeS. 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 ==
{{#ev[[File:vimeo|917280250|HA-NPS_Site_09_Marshall-Mills_-_FINAL.mp4|rightthumb|Video created for the upcoming Annapolis Walking Tour on the National Park Service mobile app.}}]]
 
[[File:John Sullivan Interview New Render.mp4|thumb|alt=John Sullivan, a flight instructor at the Navy Annapolis Flight Center, discusses his experiences at Lee Airport and his membership of the Civil Air Patrol squadron there. |John Sullivan, a flight instructor at the Navy Annapolis Flight Center, discusses his experiences at Lee Airport and his membership of the Civil Air Patrol squadron there.]]
 
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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== Early Life and Education ==
The son or William Thomas Gough Mills and Ellen M. Mills, Walter Lewis Satterlee Mills was born on August 2, 1908 in Maddox, St. Mary's County, Maryland. He was the youngest of seven children.
 
He received his elementary education in the public schools of St. Mary's County, Maryland; his high school and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_school Normal School] education at Bowie Normal School; his B.S. degree from Hampton Institute in 1939; and his M.A. degree in Administration and Supervision in Junior and Senior High School from New York University in 1949. He did further studies at Towson State University and Johns Hopkins University.<ref name="1995Parole">from 1995 Parole Week book provided by the Mills Family</ref>