National Park Service Announces $14 Million in Grants to Preserve African American Civil Rights

National Park Service Announces $14 Million in Grants to Preserve African American Civil Rights

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on April 6, 2020. It is reproduced in full below.

Black Power in 20th Century Washington, DC: A Context Study

DC Preservation League

$50,000

District of Columbia

‘Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’ Documentary Film Project

Women in Film & Video, Inc.

$50,000

Florida

Miami

Survey of the African American Brownsville Sub-division, Miami, FL

Dade Heritage Trust, Inc.

$50,000

Florida

Yulee

Historic Structure Report for Evans' Rendezvous

Nassau County Board of County Commissioners

$28,180

Georgia

Americus

Rehabilitation of the Americus Colored Hospital Phase 2

Americus-Sumter County Movement Remembered Committee, Inc

$499,697

Georgia

Atlanta

Stayed on Freedom: Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Movement at Spelman College

Spelman College

$50,000

Georgia

Atlanta

Restoration of the Historic West Hunter Street Baptist Church- Phase 3

Ralph David Abernathy III Foundation, Inc.

$499,980

Georgia

Atlanta

Rehabilitation of Fountain (Stone) Hall

Morris Brown College

$500,000

Georgia

Fort Oglethorpe

Oral History of African American WAC Battalion at Fort Oglethorpe

Friends of the 6th Cavalry Museum Inc

$28,578

Illinois

Springfield

1908 Springfield, IL Race Riot Augmented Reality Ap

Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition

$50,000

Kentucky

Louisville

Quinn Chapel AME Church Masonry Stabilization

Louisville Jefferson County Metropolitan Government

$500,000

Louisiana

New Orleans

McDonogh 19 Historic Cafeteria, Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans

Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc.

$500,000

Massachusetts

Great Barrington

Interpretive Exhibit Design for the Historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington, MA.

Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, Inc.

$50,000

Michigan

Detroit

Restoration of the Detroit Urban League Headquarters / Albert Kahn House

Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan

$500,000

Michigan

Detroit

Rehabilitation of the Grandstands of Historic Hamtramck Stadium

Charter County of Wayne, Michigan

$490,729

Michigan

Lansing

Muskegon County Historic Resource Survey

Michigan Strategic Fund

$50,000

North Carolina

Charlotte

A Virtual Sense of Place: Critical Black Urbanism in Charlotte, NC

Johnson C. Smith University

$35,000

North Carolina

Oxford

Rehabilitation of Mary Potter School Shop Building 76-C

National Mary Potter Club, Inc.

$500,000

North Carolina

Raleigh

The Untold Stories of the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Places of Northeastern North Carolina: A Research Study

NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources

$50,000

North Carolina

Raleigh

Rehabilitation of the Benbury-Frinks House

NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources

$241,940

North Carolina

Salisbury

Preservation of Historic Monroe Street School

Livingstone College

$500,000

New Jersey

Burlington City

William R. Allen School Rehabilitation

City of Burlington

$500,000

New Jersey

Cape May City

Rehabilitation of the Franklin Street School

City of Cape May

$500,000

New York

Buffalo

Michigan Street Baptist Church Protection and Rehabilitation

Buffalo Niagara Freedom Station Coalition, Inc.

$204,845

Ohio

Cincinnati

Union Baptist Cemetery Historic Preservation Project

The Union Foundation

$400,000

Ohio

Dayton

Adaptive Use of Summit Street Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)

Early Visions

$500,000

Oklahoma

Tulsa

Rehabilitation of the Greenwood Center Buildings in historic "Black Wall Street" Tulsa, OK

Greenwood Community Development Corporation

$500,000

South Carolina

Columbia

John Henry McCray and the Role of the Black Press in the Civil Rights Movement

Allen University

$43,897

South Carolina

Columbia

Booker T. Washington High School Auditorium Building Preservation Project

University of South Carolina

$500,000

South Carolina

Columbia

Starks Center Rehabilitation Project

Benedict College

$500,000

South Dakota

Sturgis

The Green Siblings Project: Oral Histories of the Little Rock Nine Siblings

Black Hills Special Services Cooperative

$25,000

Texas

Dallas

Fair Park Hall of Negro Life Research and Discovery Project

City of Dallas

$50,000

Virginia

Charlottesville

Rehabilitation of First Baptist Church

Virginia Department of Historic Resources

$240,000

West Virginia

Barboursville

Historic Memphis Tennessee Garrison House Rehabilitation Project

The Carter G Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc.

$146,100

West Virginia

Charles Town

Preservation & Restoration of the First Free Black School and Star Lodge No. 1

City of Charles Town, West Virginia

$118,500

21 States

51 projects

$14,065,000

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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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