Twenty-seven sites and organizations have been given a total of $1.6 million in grants to help preserve spaces that tell often-overlooked parts of American history, 'through the lens of Black humanity and identity.'
In the early 1900s, educator Booker T. Washington and Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald built schools across the South for African American students. May's Lick Rosenwald School, in Maysville, Ky., was built in 1921, and it has received one of 27 preservation grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.toggle captionIn the early 1900s, educator Booker T.
The Robeson house is one of 27 sites and organizations around the country receiving the award, announced Thursday by the National Historic Trust'sToward the end of his life, performer Paul Robeson lived in his sister's home at 4951 Walnut Street in Philadelphia.Purnell T. Cropper/African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Amid the heated controversies around monuments that celebrate America's racist past, the Action Fund will help preserve sites and spaces that tell often overlooked stories that speak to American history"through the lens of Black humanity and identity," says executive director Brent Leggs. "We created the Action Fund as a social movement to help empower communities," Leggs explains, but also to"showcase the contributions of African Americans to our nation's history."
Note: Several of the funders of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are also NPR supporters, including Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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