Project Grant AB29580524

This Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will support the "Buried Blueprints of Black Education" initiative at Morgan State University. The project aims to illuminate the unknown or often invisible contributions of Black educators as founders of Black education pedagogy and practice in America from the colonial period through the Civil Rights era. It will create two new university courses - "Buried Blueprints of Black Education" and "Digital Storytelling as Curriculum" - and disseminate these courses to 25 partnering Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The project seeks to deconstruct oversimplified narratives about Black educators and reconstruct a more comprehensive understanding of their beliefs, philosophies, practices, influences, curriculum, challenges, and insights. As a recovery project for erased knowledge, "Buried Blueprints" will offer a more complete story of the widespread efforts of many Black people in the field of education.