Edwin Washington Project

EWP 1 IMAG0041

Item

Title

EWP 1 IMAG0041

Tag

Deed

Place

Virginia

Identifier

1000225

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1000225_EWP_IMAG0041.JPG

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Uncategorized

Date Created

2024-01-86

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Jpeg Image

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1c0675d492a2d32a77bcfb6252f3f7cce1c572322fc456753e6e8f96da988c01

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Publisher

Digitized by Edwin Washington Project

Rights

Loudoun County Public Schools

Language

English

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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

RICHMOND
May 4, 1940

Mr. O. L. Emrick
Superintendent of Schools
Leesburg, Virginia

Dear Sir:

On Viednesday April 24, I was in Leesburg, Virginia, and discussed the matter
of better school facilities with approximately fifteen or twenty leading

Negro citizens of Loudoun County. The following questions were raised by
the citizens:

1. Should we press the court case against the Loudoun County School
Board for better school facilities, or give them an opportunity
to make good their promise?

2. Shall we insist upon having a temporary arrangement made by
which the elementary school children may be cared for or wait
until the school board can improve the conditions for both
elementary and high school children?

3, Shall we insist upon having transportation for our children
provided jmmediately, or consider this problem later?

4, Shall we finish paying for the land we are now buying or shall
we discontinue this effort?

5, Can the deed of conveyance of the property bought by Negroes,
and deeded to the school board, legally contain a provision
that the property shall at all times in the future be used for
the education of Negro youth?

These questions were discussed openly and frankly. Out of this discussion
there developed an evident desire %o work peacefully, amicably, and co-
operatively with the school board on & calm, sane, and gradual program

for the improvement of educational facilities for Negroes in Loudoun Countye.

1 am enclosing a COPY of a letter to Dr. Sidney B. Hall from the Attorney
General on question aumber 5. This letter is merely enclosed for your in-
formation, It refers to the Manassas situation as you can Se€.




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EWP 01 Civil Rights