BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Over $3.6 million in funding, drawn from the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Grant Program, has been awarded to Alabama to preserve historic sites related to African American history in the state.
A complete list of funds awarded and grant recipients is included below.
- $500,000 to Birmingham’s Saint Paul United Methodist Church for preservation, restoration, and repair.
- $50,000 to the Birmingham Black Radio Museum for the permanent exhibit at the Carver Theatre.
- $499,799 to Auburn University for stabilization and exterior rehabilitation of the Tankersley Rosenwald School in Hope Hull.
- $469,500 to the Alabama Historical Commission for stabilization and preservation of the Schooner Clotilda in Mobile, the Last-known Slave Ship to Import Enslaved Africans to the United States.
- $500,000 to the Mount Zion Center Foundation, Inc. in Montgomery for the rehabilitation of the Mount Zion AME Zion Church Memorial Annex.
- $50,000 to the Alabama Historical Commission for the Freedom Rides Museum Interior Exhibit Plan in Montgomery.
- $50,000 to the City of Montgomery for the civil engineering of “The Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama: The Planned Destruction of a Prosperous African American Community”.
- $46,588 to Auburn University for “Memory and the March: Oral Histories with Selma’s Foot Soldiers”.
- $500,000 to the Historic Brown Chapel AME Church Preservation Society, Inc. for the preservation of Selma’s endangered Historic Brown Chapel AME Church.
- $500,000 to the Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church Selma AL Legacy Foundation, Inc. for critical systems and accessibility upgrades to Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church.
- $499,521 to the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation for rehabilitation of the Historic Sullivan Building for use as a community and culture center.
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