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Title
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EWP DonationVanHuyck
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Place
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Virginia
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Identifier
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1037219
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Is Version Of
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1037219_EWP_DonationVanHuyck.pdf
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Is Part Of
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Uncategorized
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Date Created
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2024-01-07
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Format
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Pdf Document
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Number
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4510eb22dd5f55113e77943f4fdd110ba411ce8ccf609ecc46d82f47df62d3c6
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Source
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1037219_EWP_DonationVanHuyck.pdf
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Publisher
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Digitized by Edwin Washingon Project
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Rights
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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Language
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English
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Replaces
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/source/Ingest Two/EWP Donation Letters/DonationVanHuyck.pdf
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THE EDWIN WASHINGTON PROJECT
26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Virginia 20152
www.edwinwashigntonproject.org 703-8672056
10/17/2017
Dear Al,
Thanks for your support for our project. I’d like to request your support again, for more
funds and for suggestions on additional donors.
Any contribution will be appreciated; but this go around, I am asking you to consider
supporting either of two very important aspects of our project.
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Completing the acquisition of archival boxes and folders. $2,000.
Supporting our acquisition of Past Perfect software and related equipment,
which will enable anyone remote access to our files. This is very important so
that family members, now spread about the nation, will not be forced to come to
Loudoun to learn of their ancestors. Academics will also find this tool very useful.
$3,700.
In addition, we are examining all of the old schools, which requires a lot of gas.
Records directly related to “colored” schools in Loudoun are in the archives of
Swarthmore in Pennsylvania, the Library of Virginia and at Virginia State University. We
plan to do each of those trips, operating under US government per diem rules. We also
need to continue digital preservation of all of the records so that if a fire ever happened,
this history will never be lost.
2017 was a very busy year. Thanks to your initial contribution, which we have kept
anonymous, we have been using a ScanSnap scanner, which has enabled us to make
significant progress scanning records. We anticipate completing that project in 2018.
We also began identifying which textbooks were used in “colored” and white schools,
briefed many communities in Loudoun and have begun an analysis of the impact of
segregated education on African-Americans. In addition, we interviewed many people
who either taught or studied in the “colored” schools and have made much progress
identifying where the schools were, which is not always clear from the records. This
includes doing an expedition in order to find the ruins of the old Bluemont Colored
School. That last effort required using a military compass.
I hope you are still interested in helping us. If you are, keep in mind that ours is a
501©(3) effort that accepts donations under the name Edwin Washington Project . Our
goal is to document the impact of segregated education on African-Americans in
Loudoun; but the name of the non-profit, of which I’m President, is Diversity Fairs of
Virginia. The EIN is 47-1765605. The address to send contributions is Edwin
Washington Project, 26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Va. 20152.
The basic goal is to identify all of the “colored” schools in Loudoun from 1865 to 1968,
who attended them, who instructed in them, what the students learned and to compare
white vs black education. At the suggestion of the NAACP, we would like to extend this
to other neighboring counties as well, in cooperation with local Black History clubs. We
are also consulting with academics on how to use lessons learned from this exercise to
argue against segregation in other countries.
Your donation will be deeply felt, so I hope you will be able to assist us.
Warm regards,
Larry Roeder, MS
Principal Investigator
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THE EDWIN WASHINGTON PROJECT
26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Virginia 20152
www.edwinwashigntonproject.org 703-8672056
10/17/2017
Dear Al,
Thanks for your support for our project. I’d like to request your support again, for more
funds and for suggestions on additional donors.
Any contribution will be appreciated; but this go around, I am asking you to consider
supporting either of two very important aspects of our project.
-
Completing the acquisition of archival boxes and folders. $2,000.
Supporting our acquisition of Past Perfect software and related equipment,
which will enable anyone remote access to our files. This is very important so
that family members, now spread about the nation, will not be forced to come to
Loudoun to learn of their ancestors. Academics will also find this tool very useful.
$3,700.
In addition, we are examining all of the old schools, which requires a lot of gas.
Records directly related to “colored” schools in Loudoun are in the archives of
Swarthmore in Pennsylvania, the Library of Virginia and at Virginia State University. We
plan to do each of those trips, operating under US government per diem rules. We also
need to continue digital preservation of all of the records so that if a fire ever happened,
this history will never be lost.
2017 was a very busy year. Thanks to your initial contribution, which we have kept
anonymous, we have been using a ScanSnap scanner, which has enabled us to make
significant progress scanning records. We anticipate completing that project in 2018.
We also began identifying which textbooks were used in “colored” and white schools,
briefed many communities in Loudoun and have begun an analysis of the impact of
segregated education on African-Americans. In addition, we interviewed many people
who either taught or studied in the “colored” schools and have made much progress
identifying where the schools were, which is not always clear from the records. This
includes doing an expedition in order to find the ruins of the old Bluemont Colored
School. That last effort required using a military compass.
I hope you are still interested in helping us. If you are, keep in mind that ours is a
501©(3) effort that accepts donations under the name Edwin Washington Project . Our
goal is to document the impact of segregated education on African-Americans in
Loudoun; but the name of the non-profit, of which I’m President, is Diversity Fairs of
Virginia. The EIN is 47-1765605. The address to send contributions is Edwin
Washington Project, 26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Va. 20152.
The basic goal is to identify all of the “colored” schools in Loudoun from 1865 to 1968,
who attended them, who instructed in them, what the students learned and to compare
white vs black education. At the suggestion of the NAACP, we would like to extend this
to other neighboring counties as well, in cooperation with local Black History clubs. We
are also consulting with academics on how to use lessons learned from this exercise to
argue against segregation in other countries.
Your donation will be deeply felt, so I hope you will be able to assist us.
Warm regards,
Larry Roeder, MS
Principal Investigator
