Mini-Grants Program

AAHV 2002 Grantees

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Research leading to the development of docent training materials and a new intepretive plan that explores the experiences of African-Americans, including slaves, at the John Marshall House in Richmond.

Avoca Museum and Historical Society
An exhibit, printing of interpretive materials, docent trainig, and related programs on the African-American contributions to river commerce in Virginia, principally as bateaumen.

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia
Funds to update and reprint an interpretive brochure on the history of Richmond's Jackson Ward neighborhood, originally produced with funds from an earlier VFH grant.

Bland County School Board
Funds to support a continuation of research, oral histories and updating a website on Dry Fork, a rural African-American community in Bland County.

Christiansburg Institute
Funds to support restoration of the Christiansburg Institute Cemetery, including an archaelogical survey mapping of the site, installation of interpretive signs, and research to support these efforts.

City of Newport News
Funds to support production of an interpretive brochure on the history of the Newsome House, and on the life and personal achievements of its owner, J. Thomas Newsome.

City of Virginia Beach
Research on the history of African-Americans in Princess Anne County (Virginia Beach), resulting in a database and substantive revision to current interpretation of the Francis Land House.

College of William and Mary
Funds to support an oral history project documenting the story of Green v. County of New Kent, a very significant but heretofore largely unknown Supreme Court case that reshaped the course of the movement for civil rights in education.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Funds to support a new interpretive program at Colonial Williamsburg focusing on the 18th century African-American military experience.

Fairfax County Park Authority
Funds to support production of a video on the building of the Sully Slave Quarter, at Sully Plantation in Fairfax.

Hampton University
Research toward a publication on the history of the Hampton branch of the NAACP.

Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society
Funds to support the costs of transcribing an extensive series of interviews with older African American residents of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

Ivy Creek Foundation
Funds to support costs associated with developing an interpretive tour of Riverview Farm, previously owned and operated by Hugh Carr, a former slave. The farm is now site of the Ivy Creek Nature Area.

Legacy Museum of African American History
Funds to support an exhibit and related publication on African-American Education in Central Virginia, covering the period 1923-1970. An earlier VFH-funded exhibit focused on the years 1800-1922.

MacCallum More Museum and Gardens
Funds to support development of a permanent exhibit on the history of Thyne Institute.

Northern Neck Tourism Council
Funds to support development of a video program to accompany a permanent exhibit on African American education at the A. T. Johnson High School.

Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Funds to assist with production of an interpretive brochure on the life and legacy of the Reverend John Jasper, the former pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond.

Sweet Briar College
A multi-faceted project to research and document slave life on the former plantation that is now Sweet Briar College.

Total Action Against Poverty (TAP)
Funds to support an oral history project documenting the history of Henry Street, a center of African American economic and cultural life in Roanoke"s Gainsboro neighborhood.

Virginia Historical Society
Funds to support printing and distribution costs for the second edition of the "Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society."

Waterford Foundation
Funds to support a book-length publication--in print and CD-Rom formats--on the history of the African American community in Waterford Village, the culmination of a decade-long research project supported at key points by the VFH.