EWP DonationStevePrice

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Virginia

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1037217

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2024-01-07

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Digitized by Edwin Washington Project

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Loudoun County Public Schools

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English

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THE EDWIN WASHINGTON PROJECT
26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding, Virginia 20152
www.edwinwashigntonproject.org 703-8672056
10/17/2017

Dear Steve,

Thank you for your earlier donation and that of your firm’s. As we discussed over the
phone, my project is incorporated as a 501©(3). We accept donations under the name
Edwin Washington Project for funds going to that effort; 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
another donation, perhaps on the order of $250. 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, 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.
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. In addition, there are 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.
Thanks again for your support.

Warm regards,

Larry Roeder, MS
Principal Investigator

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