The Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation has received a $23,000 from the National Park Service, the group announced last week.
The foundation’s Oral History and artifact Collection Project is one of 39 projects in 16 states and the District of Columbia that received funding as part of the Historic Preservation Fund’s African American Civil Rights grant program, which focuses on the preservation of sites and stories directly associated with the struggle of African Americans to gain equal rights.
These funds will be used to support the foundation’s Oral History and Artifact Collection Project to preserve the history of the Woodville Rosenwald School and other African American schools. This competitive program awarded a total of $23.4 million in grants, including many to universities, colleges and municipalities.
The project will collect oral histories, documents and artifacts related to the experience of African Americans attending Gloucester schools before desegregation. The collected ...