New Projects Funded for Civil Rights Sites

World Heritage Initiative

Department of History

Atlanta, Georgia

NPS Civil Rights Grants Awarded

$14 million to 51 projects in 20 states

It is always nice to get good news, especially when the news has been so bad of late.

Earlier this week the National Park Service announced the recipients of its 2020 African American Civil Rights Historic Preservation Fund Grants. The link below identifies the 51 projects in 20 states that received more than $14 million dollars in support. Alabama received the lion’s share with thirteen projects being funded, followed by Georgia and North Carolina with five each, South Carolina and Michigan with three each, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, and West Virginia with two each, and the remaining states with one project funded being California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Virginia. Financed through the Historic Preservation Fund with monies derived from federal oil leases on the Outer Continental Shelf, the NPS and U. S. Congress has allocated moneys specifically for civil rights sites restorations since 2019.

Historic Tabernacle Church in Selma, Alabama, received funds (pictured above).

You can learn more and see the full list of recipients here.

Our congratulations to all of the recipients and

we look forward to watching your progress.

U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium Postponed

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium has been postponed. A new date will not be determined until after the COVID-19 threat abates. Nevertheless the Georgia State University World Heritage Initiative continues to work with stewards of the historic properties associated with the postwar African American freedom struggle on improving interpretation, management, and the historic preservation of these sacred places along with securing recognition of U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites on the World Heritage List.

This project is funded in part by:

The African American Civil Rights program of the Historic Preservation Fund,

National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not constitute endorsement or necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior or U.S. Government; and

Grants from the African American Fund and the Southern Intervention Fund of the

National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Questions? Comments?

Visit: worldheritage.gsu.edu .

Project Director Glenn T. Eskew: gteskew@gsu.edu or 404.413.6354

Project Manager Anne H. Farrisee: afarrisee@gsu.edu or 404.413.6353