Mini-Grants Program

AAHV 2007 Grantees

Black History Museum & Cultural Center - Richmond, VA
African American Trailblazers

$8,000 to support production of a traveling exhibit on African American history in Virginia, focusing on the lives of twelve exemplary figures from the fields of politics, finance, literature, music and sports.

Carver-Price Alumni Association, Inc. - Concord, VA
Carver-Price School Oral History Project

$3,000 to support an oral history project focusing on interviews with former students, teachers, and staff of the Carver-Price High School in Appomattox County, resulting in a series of DVDs based on these interviews.

Christiansburg Institute, Inc. - Christiansburg, VA
The Rosenwald-Christiansburg Institute Connection: Revising an On-Line History

$3,000 to support revisions and additions to an existing website on the history of Christiansburg Institute, focusing on extensive connections between Christiansburg Institute and the beginnings of the Rosenwald School movements in Virginia and nationwide.

Fluvanna County Historical Society - Palmyra, VA
Fluvanna County Rosenwald Schools Project

$3,000 to support development of a strategic plan to preserve and interpret the history of Fluvanna County’s five remaining Rosenwald schools.

Hampton University - Hampton, VA
Literary Reading Series

$3,000 to support two new programs in an ongoing “Literary Reading Series,” featuring discussion with leading African American authors.

Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA
African American Schools in Virginia during the Depression

$3,000 to support development of a website devoted to the subject of African American schools and education in Virginia during the Great Depression.

Virginia University of Lynchburg - Lynchburg, VA
Ota Benga, Lynchburg and the Empowerment of the Pygmies

$3,000 to support a three-day conference on the life of Ota Benga, an African Pygmy who was brought to the U.S. in 1904 and exhibited as a curiosity at the St. Louis World’s Fair and the Bronx Zoo before being rescued by African American ministers and given a home at the Virginia Baptist Seminary (now Virginia University of Lynchburg) where he died in 1916.