"One site at a time, [Brent Leggs] and his colleagues are changing not only what history we preserve but what we think it means to preserve it."
Casey Cep, "The Fight to Preserve African American History," The New Yorker, January 27, 2020.
The Fight to Preserve African American History
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African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC, United States
Awarded $5,000,000 in December 2019 to support the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's grantmaking program, and to enhance the Fund's organizational capacity
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC, United States
Awarded $2,000,000 in December 2018 to support the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which distributes preservation support to important sites of African American history in the United States
