JAMES H. RABY
526 NORTH PATRICK STREET
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
December 5, 1944.
Mr. 0. L. Emerick
Division Superintendant
Loudoun County School Poard
Loudoun County, Virginia.
Dear VMr. Emerick:
Replying to your letter dated November 21, 1944, with re-
Fference to the school situation in Loudoun County amoung
the colored children, especially in St. Louis.
Replying to the rirst paragraph of your letter, I do not
guite understand the statement that if my clients at
Middlesburg are disposed to make a disposition of the
matter of an addition to the present building, it wili
probably postpond for many years the erection of the
new building. If yvou have something definitely in mind
a3 to the erection of a scheol building--that is in the
very near future-—that will meet the approval of the
parents in that area, but if you have in mind some build-
inz to be erected after the war is over, taen I think
the solution to that is to erect some temporary build-
ing so as teo give adeguate accommodation for those child-
ren,who do not have such school building.
It is not my desire nor the desire of the parents in the
community to resort to court actions in order to have the
necessary school facilities. It is always more agreeable
to us to do our duty without having to be forced tarough
court. If we have to resort to court actions it would
mean a more expensive undertaking. Your statement that
my threating to have court actions in order to get the
necessary facilities was not my intention. However, if
you feel that that is the only way by which we can zget
equal school facilities in the county, then taat 1is the
only avernue opened to me.
T noticed that on December 12 the school board would meet.
I hope that at this meeting you will meske certzin provi-
sions for the Colored inasmuch as at your last regular
