Project Grant P17AP00043

The New York Public Library, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University, will deliver a two-week combined summer institute titled "Harlem's Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative" through a $378,290 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through scholarly presentations, dialogue with movement veterans, place-based pedagogy, and guided exploration of the Schomburg Center's archival collections, the institute will provide 25...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $361,539.89 Project Grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College for a project titled "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?" under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant supported research examining the Civil Rights Movement from October 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017. The Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program promotes better teaching and research...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $1,227,260 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) Project Grant to the Lincoln High School Preservation Alumni Association, Inc., a minority and Black American owned non-profit organization, for the preservation and rehabilitation of the Lincoln High School in Sumter, South Carolina. The grant funds will support hazardous material abatement, preservation of interior features, and rehabilitation of the first-floor wing...

The COFO Complex in Jackson, Mississippi will receive $150,000 under a Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Preservation of Historic Structures on the Campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities program. Jackson State University will replace the HVAC system and repair the roof at the three commercial buildings that once served as the epicenter for civil rights activities in Jackson from 1950 to 1961. The buildings provided gathering spaces for meetings of various...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Catticus Corporation a $100,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to develop an interactive website titled "Striking Back, Striding Forward." The website will tell the story of Barbara Johns, a 16-year old student who organized a student protest against her segregated school in Farmville, Virginia in 1951 that led to the Supreme Court declaring segregation in public...

Jezebel Productions Inc. received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to produce a 75-minute documentary film titled "The Five Demands: Two Volatile Weeks that Changed the Face of Higher Education." The documentary will tell the story of the 1969 campus strike by Black and Puerto Rican students at the City College of New York, who were at the forefront...

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History received a $186,444 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.163 Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development) to host a Landmarks of American History and Culture Teacher Institute commemorating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer in 2024. The institute will provide participants with content knowledge and tools to bring the history of this Civil Rights landmark to their classrooms. Key products and...

This Project Grant award of $343,197.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) seeks to introduce undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to careers in librarianship, with a focus on preservation, archives, and conservation work. The project will deliver a hybrid program including virtual seminars and on-site, hands-on internship experiences at the Hbcu...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) provides $825,000 to The Lincolnite Club, a minority-owned, nonprofit organization in Marion, Alabama, for the Phase III rehabilitation of the historic Lincoln Normal School gymnasium. The funding will support architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation work on this National Register-listed historic site...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to The Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to produce, test, assess, and host an educational interactive documentary website titled "The Barbara Johns Project." This project aims to illuminate the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation (Jim Crow) in the South between the Civil War and...