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Mini-Grants Program
AAHV 2003 Grantees
Anne
Spencer House, Museum, and Garden
Funds to support printing costs
for a 70-page illustrated history
and guidebook on the design of
Anne Spencer's garden and its
relationship to her life and literary
achievements.
College
of William and Mary
Funds to support script development
for a documentary film on the
Green v. New Kent County Supreme
Court case which shifted the emphasis
from school desegregation to integration
in the aftermath of the Brown
decision.
Friends
of the Thomas Balch Library, Incorporated
Funds to support an oral history
project to document African American
communities and neighborhoods
in Loudoun County, leading to
publication of a map and guide
to these communities.
Lynchburg
College
Funds to support portions of an
oral history project documenting
the lives and experiences of Nelson
County's African American residents
in the period from the 1920s to
the 1960s.
Maury
Elementary Parent-Teacher Association
Funds to support research leading
to the creation of a "Teaching
with Historic Places" lesson
plan focusing on a 1939 Sit-in
at the Queen Street Library in
Alexandria--one of the first orchestrated
non-violent protests against the
exclusion of African Americans
from public facilities.