Community history in south alabama: preserving and sharing stories of minoritized alabamians [we propose to fund two projects at the university of south alabama to support the preservation and…

The University of South Alabama received a $453,394 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support efforts to preserve and share community histories of underrepresented groups in South Alabama through two projects. Staff will be retained and hired at the University's McCall Rare Book & Manuscript Library to process and digitize existing oral history collections, focusing on topics such as Africatown and descendants of enslaved Africans in the area. Additionally, the University's USA Archaeology Museum will receive funding to develop traveling and permanent exhibits, educational materials, and programming. Artifacts, oral histories, and music recordings from historic African American communities will be featured. No subawards are planned. The grant aims to make these community history resources more accessible to university students, scholars, local communities, and the general public.

Activities

The staff would process and digitize oral history collections at the mccall rare book and manuscript library and to develop traveling, website-based, and permanent exhibits and educational materials in consultation with humanities scholars at the USA archeology museum.&nbsp

Expected outcomes

  the & nbsp; expected outcomes are the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of community history pertaining to mobile, alabama on such subjects as urban renewal, african-american entrepreneurship, the jewish community of the region, and other subjects.&nbsp

Intended beneficiaries

University students, scholars, the community, and the general public would benefit from the project to make the oral history collections and exhibits accessible online while local populations would benefit from the on-site exhibits and programming at the museum.&nbsp

Subrecipient activities

  the recipient does not intend to subaward funds.  ]