Selma University is getting $750,000 from the National Park Service to preserve Foster Hall on its campus.
Five historic sites connected to the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Selma, Marion and Hope Hull will receive a total of $3 million in federal grants.
Preserving civil rights history was at the center of a check presentation ceremony at Selma University.
Selma University is getting a $750,000 grant from the National Park Service to help restore Pollard Hall.
A historic Selma church that hosted the first mass meeting of the 1960s voting rights movement is receiving a $750,000 grant to help preserve the site.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Congresswoman Terri Sewell announces major funding to preserve historic structures at three sites around the city of Selma. “We in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District are mere custodians of America’s history. And if we don’t tell our stories, others will. And they won’t get it right,” said Sewell. Selma University is one of five HBCUs in…
The National Park Service says it will help preserve historic buildings on the campuses of Alabama’s historically Black colleges and universities.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A million dollars in grants from the National Park Service — is awarded to the Lincolnite Club in Marion to rehabilitate the old gymnasium at the historic Lincoln School. The Lincoln School was founded just after the end of the Civil War in 1867 by nine former slaves. It closed 103 years later — in…
A project named for a Black man who was lynched in Alabama is being awarded more than $235,000 to preserve a school that was important to the Black community in Lowndes County.
The National Park Service says beginning Friday, May 28, the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site will reopen Hangar 1 at a reduced capacity.
