National Park Service awards $16.2M to help preserve African American civil rights history

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National Park Service awards $16.2M to help preserve African American civil rights history

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on May 11. It is reproduced in full below.

The Civil Engineering of the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama: The Planned Destruction of a Prosperous African American Community

City of Montgomery

$50,000

Alabama

Selma

Memory and the March: Oral Histories with Selma's Foot Soldiers

Auburn University

$46,588

Alabama

Selma

Preservation of Endangered Historic Brown Chapel AME Church

Historic Brown Chapel AME Church Preservation Society Inc

$500,000

Alabama

Selma

Critical Systems and Accessibility Upgrades to Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church

Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church Selma AL Legacy Foundation, Inc.

$500,000

Alabama

Selma

Rehabilitation of the Historic Sullivan Building for use as a Community and Culture Center

Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

$499,521

District of Columbia

Black Women Suffrage in Washington, DC: A Context Study

DC Preservation League

$50,000

Florida

Miami

Rehabilitating, Nominating, and Establishing the Black Muslim Contribution to American Civil Rights through Masjid al-Ansar in Miami, the First Mosque in Florida

The East West Foundation

$444,165

Florida

Miami

Phase 2 Rehabilitation of Ace Theater, a "Jim Crow" Theater

Ace Theater Foundation, Inc.

$500,000

Florida

Saint Augustine

Exhibition on the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement and Wade-ins

St. Johns Cultural Council, Inc

$50,000

Georgia

Americus

Rehabilitation of the Historic Campbell AME Chapel

Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc

$499,128

Georgia

Americus

Rehabilitation of the Historic Americus Colored Hospital Phase 3

Americus Sumter County Movement Remembered Committee, Inc

$499,488

Georgia

Atlanta

Rehabilitation and Preservation of the Historic West Hunter Street Baptist Church Phase 5, Home Church of Dr. Ralph David Abernathy

Ralph David Abernathy III Foundation, Inc.

$499,232

Georgia

Atlanta

English Avenue School Emergency Stabilization

Atlanta Preservation Center Inc. 401

$500,000

Georgia

Atlanta

Rehabilitation of Residence of Grace Towns Hamilton

Preserve Black Atlanta, Inc.

$500,000

Georgia

Atlanta

Rehabilitation of Residence of George Alexander Towns

Preserve Black Atlanta

$500,000

Georgia

Marietta

Rehabilitation of the Historic Girard Elementary School

WGS 3.0 Inc

$499,488

Georgia

Woodville

Rehabilitation of the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home

Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Inc.

$469,014

Illinois

Chicago

Rehabilitation of the Bronzeville Historic Wabash YMCA

The Renaissance Collaborative, Inc.

$436,375

Kansas

Topeka

St. Mark's Church Rehabilitation - Phase 2

St. Mark's AME Church

$489,800

Kentucky

Louisville

Quinn Chapel AME Church Stabilization - Phase 3

Louisville Jefferson County Metropolitan Government

$500,000

Kentucky

Russellville

Documenting the Places and Civil Rights Contributions of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the First Woman of African American Heritage to Cover White House, Congressional and Supreme Court Press Briefings

Historic Russellville Inc. DBA Seek Museum

$23,669

Maryland

St. Leonard

Witnesses of Wallville: Documenting a Rural Southern Maryland Community through Oral Histories

Maryland Historical Trust/JPPM

$49,742

Mississippi

Holly Springs

Rehabilitation of Carnegie Auditorium on Mississippi Industrial College Campus

Rust College

$500,000

Mississippi

Jackson

The Riverside Hotel Rehabilitation Project

Mississippi Heritage Trust

$499,500

North Carolina

Oxford

Rehabilitation of Mary Potter School Shop Building

National Mary Potter Club, Inc.

$500,000

North Carolina

Raleigh

Rehabilitation of Leonard Hall

Shaw University

$500,000

New Jersey

Atlantic City

Rehabilitation of the Indiana Avenue Firehouse

City of Atlantic City

$500,000

Oklahoma

Tulsa

Masonry Repair for the Historic Greenwood "Black Wall Street" Buildings

Greenwood Community Development Corporation

$412,465

Oklahoma

Tulsa

Oral Histories from Greenwood, Tulsa, and the 13 Oklahoma Black Townships

Greenwood Community Development Corporation

$43,365

South Carolina

Charleston

Mapping Charleston's Black Burial Grounds

Preservation Society of Charleston

$50,000

South Carolina

Columbia

The Alston House Rehabilitation Project

Magnolia Blossom SC

$318,645

South Carolina

Columbia

Rehabilitation of the Booker T. Washington High School Auditorium Building

University of South Carolina

$500,000

South Carolina

Columbia

Morgan Hall Rehabilitation Project Phase 2

Benedict College

$500,000

South Carolina

Georgetown

Historic Sandy Island School House Rehabilitation

Georgetown County Government

$408,440

South Carolina

West Columbia

Interior Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse of the Former Lakeview School

Brookland Center for Community Economic Change

$499,576

Tennessee

Memphis

Collins Chapel Rehabilitation

Collins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

$500,000

Tennessee

Memphis

Memphis Heritage Trail: Youth and Civil Rights Summer Camp

City of Memphis-Division of Housing and Community Development

$50,000

Virginia

Richmond

Stabilization of the Cumberland County Pine Grove Rosenwald School

AMMD Pine Grove Project

$290,000

Congress appropriated funding for the African American Civil Rights Grant Program in FY2021 through the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). The HPF uses revenue from federal oil and gas leases on the Outer Continental Shelf, assisting with a broad range of preservation projects without expending tax dollars, with the intent to mitigate the loss of a nonrenewable resource to benefit the preservation of other irreplaceable resources.

Established in 1977, the HPF is authorized at $150 million per year through 2023 and has provided more than $2.7 billion in historic preservation grants to states, Tribes, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Administered by the NPS, HPF funds may be appropriated by Congress to support a variety of historic preservation projects to help preserve the nation’s cultural resources.

Learn more about NPS historic preservation programs and grants.

www.nps.gov

About the National Park Service. More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for America's 423 national parks and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.nps.gov, and on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

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

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