EWP DonationLiUna

Title

EWP DonationLiUna

Place

Virginia

Identifier

1037215

Is Version Of

1037215_EWP_DonationLiUna.pdf

Is Part Of

Uncategorized

Date Created

2024-01-07

Format

Pdf Document

Number

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Source

/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1037215_EWP_DonationLiUna.pdf

Publisher

Digitized by Edwin Washington Project

Rights

Loudoun County Public Schools

Language

English

Replaces

/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/source/Ingest Two/EWP Donation Letters/DonationLiUna.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 Larry

I hope you are finding our support for organized labor at Loudoun Democrats useful. We
certainly plan to do everything we can to support the cause and look forward to working
with you over the coming year. I also want to thank you for your support for a 501©(3)
project that accept 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.
Now that the end of the year is coming upon us, I am hoping that you will consider a
another donation, perhaps on the order of $500. Funds go to material used to preserve
our records and actual research, making sure that the history of Black education in
Loudoun is never lost. There is a lot going on.
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.
2017 was a very busy year. Thanks to a donor who provided us a high end scanner, we
have made significant progress scanning school records and anticipate completing that
project by mid-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. We had to use an army compass for that exercise.
We need to buy more archival boxes for old records and books. 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, as
they relate to Quaker assistance, so we need funds to cover our travel at US
government per diem rates. There are also records at Virginia State University. 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.
Your donation will be deeply felt. I hope you will be able to assist us.

Warm regards,

Larry Roeder, MS
Principal Investigator

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