World Heritage Initiative Department of History Atlanta, Georgia

Happy Holidays from the GSU World Heritage Initiative

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grants Letters of Intent due January 14, 2022

U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium Rescheduled for April 21-22, 2022

As 2021 draws to a close, the GSU World Heritage Initiative Team appreciates your ongoing interest and support in advancing a potential serial nomination of U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites for possible inscription on the World Heritage List. We hope that you have a happy and healthy Holiday Season and extend to you our Best Wishes for the New Year.

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grants The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces another round of African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grants to be awarded in 2022. The grants range from $50,000 to $150,000. The Action Fund supports projects focused on African American cultural heritage and can include: Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation.  Letters of Intent are due January 14, 2022 and must be submitted via the National Trust's online grant application system. Full nominations from selected projects are due May 22, 2022.

Past recipients include (from left to right): the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi; Clayborn Temple in Memphis, Tennessee; and the City of Birmingham to fund Historic Structure Reports of civil rights sites including the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Parsonage.

SAVE THE DATES: APRIL 21-22, 2022 U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium at GSU   Save the dates of April 21-22, 2022, for the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites Symposium hosted by Georgia State University in its College of Law on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. Now twice postponed, this event will feature presentations on African American historic preservation and cultural heritage. Held in conjunction with the U.S. Civil Rights Trail Marketing Alliance, the meeting will be an excellent opportunity to network as attendees will include heads of state departments of tourism along with stakeholders and property owners of places associated with the movement.

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