West Virginia

National Park Service awards $21 million to help preserve African American civil rights history  


State   Project   Grantee   Award   Alabama, Anniston   Story Mapping and Formalization of Operations and Maintenance for the Anniston Civil Rights Trail   City of Anniston   $74,800   Alabama, Birmingham   Historic Bethel Baptist Church: Preserving the Past to Secure the Future   Historic Bethel Baptist Church Community Restoration Fund   $750,000   Alabama, Birmingham   Preservation, Rehabilitation and Repair of St. Paul United Methodist Church   St. Paul United Methodist Church   $750,000   Alabama, Montgomery   Repair, Rehabilitation and Preservation of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church and Parsonage   Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church   $750,000   Alabama, Montgomery   Freedom Rides Museum Vintage Greyhound Bus Virtual Reality Experience   Alabama Historical Commission   $75,000   Alabama, Montgomery   Moore Building 2nd Floor Rehabilitation   Alabama Historical Commission   $750,000   Connecticut, Bridgeport   Historic Preservation and Rehabilitation of the 1848 Eliza Freeman House   The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community   $750,000   Florida, Pensacola   Ground Penetrating Radar Survey and Interpretation of a Possible 19th Century Unmarked African American Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida   City of Pensacola   $22,160   Georgia, Americus   Rehabilitation of the Historic Americus Colored Hospital to create the Americus Sumter County Civil Rights Museum and Cultural Center   Americus-Sumter County Movement Remembered   $749,200   Georgia, Atlanta   Interpretive programming about the church and the key role of Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy in the Civil Rights Movement   Ralph David Abernathy III Foundation, Inc.   $75,000   Georgia, Atlanta   Rehabilitation of the Historic Ashby Theatre as part of a multi-use business and community center in westside Atlanta   Atlanta Business League Foundation, Inc   $749,000   Georgia, Atlanta   Prince Hall Masonic Lodge Rehabilitation Project   The Trust for Public Land   $750,000   Georgia, Savannah   Springfield Terrace School Rehabilitation Plan   Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah   $50,000   Georgia, Warm Springs   Saving the Last Rosenwald School; The Eleanor Roosevelt School   Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation   $694,522   Kentucky, Louisville   Brown Memorial CME Church Building Rehabilitation   Louisville Preservation Fund   $750,000   Maryland, Baltimore   Survey of Civil Rights in Baltimore   Maryland Department of Planning, Maryland Historical Trust   $50,000   Mississippi, Marks   Marks Rosenwald School Rehabilitation: Phase 3   Quitman County School District   $408,500   Mississippi, Meridian   Renovation/Rehabilitation Wechsler School 1951 Addition Cafeteria/Multipurpose Area   The Wechsler Foundation   $750,000   Mississippi and Illinois,  Various sites   Emmett Till Landmark – a Digital, GPS-enabled Guide to 23 Sites   Emmett Till Memorial Commission of Tallahatchie County, Inc.   $74,096   New York, Rye   Rye African American Cemetery Pre-Preservation Initiative   Town of Rye   $35,450   North Carolina, Elizabeth City   ECSU Rosenwald Practice School and Principal’s House Rehabilitation/Northeastern North Carolina African American Research and Cultural Heritage Institute   Elizabeth City State University   $750,000   North Carolina, Elizabeth City   ECSU Rosenwald Practice School and Principal’s House/Northeastern North Carolina African American Research and Cultural Heritage Institute Exhibit Design and Construction   Elizabeth City State University   $75,000   North Carolina, Sedalia   Preservation of the Tea House at Charlotte Hawkins Brown State Historic Site   NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources   $555,334   North Carolina, Southern Pines   Trinity AME Zion Church Rehabilitation Project   Triangle J Council of Governments   $748,303   North Carolina, Southern Pines   Museum Exhibition Planning and Research for the West Southern Pines Cultural Center   Southern Pines Land & Housing Trust Inc.   $67,200   Ohio, Cleveland   Phase II: Masonry and Terracotta Repairs for Cleveland’s Top Civil Rights Landmark, Cory United Methodist Church   Cleveland Restoration Society, Inc.   $529,038   Ohio, Cleveland   Pre-preservation Work on the Historic Sidaway Bridge   Neighborhood Progress, Inc.   $75,000   Pennsylvania,   Washington Crossing   Calling Forth the Legacy of Jacob Francis: The Revolutionary Road to the Civil Rights Movement   Friends of Washington Crossing Park   $61,955   South Carolina, Columbia   Booker T. Washington High School Auditorium Building Rehabilitation   University of South Carolina   $5,000,000   South Carolina, Ninety Six   Stabilization and Preservation Planning of the Former Edgewood School, an “Equalization School,” Now Serving as Edgewood Community Center   South Carolina Rural Education Grassroots Group   $750,000   South Carolina,  Orangeburg    Phase II Preservation of All Star Bowling Lanes   Center for Creative Partnerships   $750,000   South Carolina,  Orangeburg    Preservation and Repair of Historic Trinity United Methodist Church: Phase IV   Trinity United Methodist Church   $750,000   South Carolina, Sumter   2022 Lincoln High School Preservation Application – Phase II   Lincoln High School Preservation Alumni Association   $750,000   Texas, Galveston   Elevation of the 1859 Ashton Villa   Galveston Historical Foundation, Inc.   $750,000   Virginia, Sutherland   Historic Rocky Branch School Initial Building Stabilization Project   Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities   $288,000   Virginia, Various sites   Sanctuaries of Governance and Social Structure: A Collaborative Project to Recognize the Role of African American Churches from Reconstruction to Civil Rights   One Shared Story   $74,942   West Virginia, Various sites    African American Experience of Struggle and Achievement in West Virginia’s Allegheny Highlands   Friends of Blackwater   $65,000    16 States    37 Projects      $21,097,500  



Source link

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back to top button