This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the digitization of school and community records from the Christiansburg Institute in Virginia. The $349,126 award will create 2,161 comprehensive catalog records for the Christiansburg Institute Digital Archives, highlighting the experiences of Black Appalachians over the 100-year history of the school. The digitized materials will be made publicly available through the Virginia Tech Libraries' Southwest Virginia Digital Archives and the Digital Public Library of America's Digital Virginias. This project aims to amplify the voices of Black Appalachians and foster new scholarship on African American and Appalachian history.
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