Black History

Grants Awarded

  • Arkansas Black History Quiz Bowl

    2/18/2010: Arkansas Black History Quiz Bowl Association, $2,200.00.

    The Arkansas Black History Quiz Bowl Association will sponsor a quiz bowl to heighten the awareness and appreciation of the contributions of African Americans in the development of world history and culture.

  • The Three As: African, American, and Arkansas: Our History, Our Heritage

    2/18/2010: Washington Heritage House, $2,525.00.

    The projects goal is to demonstrate the connection between Africa, America, and Arkansas through lectures by prominent educators, musicians, legislators, community leaders, and family who devote their expertise to the Washington Heritage House.

  • Celebrating Arkansas African American Writers and Publishers

    2/18/2010: Patrick Oliver, $3,350.00.

    The project will highlight the accomplishments of noted Arkansas African Americans, past and present, in various writing and publishing professions, through public programs such as panel discussions, workshops, readings, radio interviews, etc., and the development of lesson plans.

  • Civil Rights in Arkansas: Reconstruction to Present

    2/18/2010: Mosaic Templars Cultural Center $3,169.52.

    The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center will create a traveling exhibit and educational materials on the civil rights movement in Arkansas from Reconstruction to the present as it pertains to African Americans, using a scholars panel, an education focus group, public relations/advertising, supplies and research.

  • Reversing the Trend: Know the Past, Live Your Future

    2/18/2010: Inner City FutureNet, $3,335.00.

    Inner City FutureNet (ICFN) will plan a program to teach youth, grades K-12, the heritage and history of their family and neighbors in the Centennial Park community, emphasizing the importance of genealogy and oral history, and to develop educational programs on community history.

  • Golden Girls: An Oral History

    5/21/2009: Golden Girls: An Oral History. (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Beta Phi Omega Alumni Chapter, Ivy Foundation of Little Rock), $1,105.00.

    The project, to develop a video-based documentary and to create and distribute a written document of about the Beta Phi Omega Alumni Chapter of Little Rock, will feature oral histories of members with fifty to seventy-five years of service, the current and past presidents, and past regional directors.

  • Clark County Historical Association

    5/21/2009: Clark County Historical Association, Arkadelphia, $3,974.00.

    The Clark County Historical Association will work with Ouachita Baptist University to create a records database of the Mitchell and Williams funeral homes including burial and funeral insurance records, perform the intellectual processing of the Williams Collection, and make both available to researchers.

  • The School Without Walls

    5/21/2009: The School Without Walls (Human Elevation Love Project, HELPS Incorporated), $2,200.00.

    The project, to display the lives of African American families and the images of the Arkansas delta, includes creating a visual record of all sites and buildings of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (formerly Branch Normal School, and Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College).

  • Hill Foundation

    5/21/2009: Hill Foundation, $4,030.00.

    The Hill Foundation, Hoxie, Arkansas, and the Eddie Mae Herron Center, Pocahontas, Arkansas, will create an educational exhibit display illustrating African American life in communities in Lawrence County, located in the Mississippi delta region of the state.

  • Central High School, Celebrating Sixty-One Years

    2/19/2009: The Legacy Continues (Central High School Alumni Association, Parkin), $4,450.74.

    The project will preserve the educational legacy of Central High School, an African American school built in 1948 and located in the Delta region of eastern Arkansas, through exhibits, interpretive programming, and oral history by creating a traveling exhibit, reproducing photographs, creating flyers/brochures, and purchasing archival supplies and equipment to conduct oral histories.

  • Masonic Lodge Records of Arkansas's F. & A.M.

    2/19/2009: Masonic Lodge Records of Arkansas's F. & A.M. (Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Pine Bluff), $4,350.00.

    The project's objectives are to organize and inventory Masonic records, purchase archival supplies and equipment, and frame photographs of past Masonic Grand Masters who played an important role in Arkansas history. Materials will be loaned to the Arkansas History Commission for microfilming.

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