Birmingham: Funds formed in response to deadly racial violence four years ago at Charlottesville, Virginia, said Thursday it would provide $ 3 million in grants to more than three dozen groups and sites nationally to help maintain landmarks related to black history.
Receiver of money from African-American cultural heritage funds includes a consortium of the location of civil rights and blacks in Alabama; work to build a trail of African American heritage in Colorado; And the preservation of the church where Emmett Till’s funeral was held in Chicago after his Lynching at Mississippi in 1955.
The 16th Baptist Church in Birmingham.
(AP) another grant announced on Thursday, including money to hire a director for Save Harlem now, a historic conservation effort in New York; Repair to the African American Museum and Library in Oakland, California; And research on people who were enslaved at Hacienda La Esperanza in Puerto Rico.
Grants starting from $ 50,000 to $ 150,000 will be given to recipients who represent centuries of black experiences and help tell the full story of history a.s., said Brent Leggs, executive director of funds.
The nation must “appreciate the relationship between architecture and racial justice,” Leggs said.
“I think it is very important to admit that this nation may be rich in a variety of history but often do poor work in representing that history,” he said.
Grants will be projected in 17 states plus Puerto Rico and Columbia District.
Action funds were founded by national beliefs for historic conservation after clashes during the “unified rally” in Charlottesville in 2017 ended with Heather Heyer’s death, a civil rights activist.
A white supremacy demonstrator who drove his car became a group of people punished in his murder and sentenced to life.
“This grant will have a positive impact on 40 communities nationally and produce the creation of inheritance seen and preserved from African-American contributions,” Lonnie Burch, the first black people to head the Smithsonian institution, said in a statement.
Action funds, with $ 50 million in funding from private donors, calls itself the biggest effort to preserve sites related to African-American history.