The Arkansas Humanities Council, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is seeking proposals for Black History and Culture grants before the upcoming Aug. 15 deadline.
The Black History and Culture grant provides funding for nonprofit organizations that wish to research, document, preserve and interpret Arkansas’ African American history and culture, and is offered as part of the Arkansas Humanities Council’s mission to promote the appreciation and understanding of the humanities in the state.
“Unfortunately, African American history and culture has been historically underdocumented,” Arkansas Humanities Council Executive Director Jama Best said. “It is absolutely vital that we work to rectify this, as knowing and having access to this history increases our understanding and connection to one another within the state.”
Projects eligible for the grant include oral histories, cataloging, documenting, archiving and digitizing Arkansas’s African American historical collections, research and documentation of funeral home records and obituaries, research and programming on topics including but not limited to Civil Rights, The Great Migration and African American history, community history, humanities-based workshops and similar projects.
The Arkansas Humanities Council awards a wide range of other grants through a competitive process to nonprofits, teachers and schools to conduct humanities projects, classroom projects, field trips and more. To learn more or to apply for a grant, visit the Arkansas Humanities Council website.
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