UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GRANTS: DEADLINE JUNE 2, 2003
Underground Railroad Grants: The Underground Railroad Educational and
Cultural Program of the Department of Education provides grants to
nonprofit educational organizations that are established to research,
display, interpret, and collect artifacts relating to the history of the
Underground Railroad. Some $2.235 million in grant funds are available to
nonprofit educational organizations that are established to research,
display, interpret, and collect artifacts relating to the history of the
Underground Railroad. Typical awards are in the $100,000 to $750,000 range.
The application deadline is June 2. Additional Information is online at:
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2003-2/042203e.html
AFRICAN UNION BURIAL GROUND LECTURES IN DELAWARE, MAY 1-2, 2003
May is Delaware Archaeology Month and this year we are kicking off the
festivities with a lecture by Dr. Sherrill Wilson, Urban Anthropologist and
director of the NYC African Burial Ground Project, who will speak on the
archeological excavations at the African Burial Ground in New York
City. Dr. Wilson will be speaking at two venues on subsequent
evenings. The African Burial Ground encompassed 5-6 acres in lower
Manhattan when in use in the 1700s. As the city expanded, the burial ground
was eventually forgotten until archaeologists unearthed a portion of it
during pre-construction planning for a federal office building in 1991. The
discovery, archaeological excavation, analysis, and reburial of more than
400 individuals deeply impacted the descendant and broader community,
bringing about a renewed awareness and affording a rare opportunity for
reclaiming a neglected part of American history. At the time of discovery,
the African Burial Ground was recognized as the largest and only known
urban pre-Revolutionary African cemetery in America. A memorial and
interpretive center mark the site as a sacred place and tell the story of
this National Historic Landmark and the lives of New York's early African
ancestors.
The first lecture will be held on at 7 PM on Thursday, May 1st in the
Kirkbride Bldg. Room 206 at the University of Delaware in Newark. For more
information contact Dr. Lu Ann De Cunzo (302) 831-1854. The Kirkbride
Building is located at the southwest corner of West Delaware Avenue and
South College Avenue, across from the Trabant Student Center. The second
lecture will be held at 7:00 pm, Friday, May 2, at the Delaware State
University Campus, Dover, in the MBNA Building, Longwood Room 113. For
More Information, Call Dr. Brad Skelcher, 302-857-6628. The MBNA Building
is located on the main campus drive across the street from the library.
Web links for more information:
http://www.delawarearchaeology.org/2003_calendar_of_events.htm
http://materialculture.udel.edu/news/archeaology-month/archeaology-month.html
[Information submitted by Robin K. Bodo, Delaware State Historic
Preservation Office, 15 The Green, Dover, Delaware 19901; (302) 739-5685;
(302) 739-5660 (fax); [email protected]
]
JOHN BROWN IN CHATHAM, ONTARIO, MAY 3-4; IN ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW YORK, MAY 4,
2003
Jean Libby, Allies for Freedom, alerted me to two events concerning John
Brown. There will be a seminar on John Brown at the Heritage Room of the
WISH Centre in Chatham, Ontario, May 3-4, with Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., author
of Fire From the Midst of You; A Religious Life of John Brown and a showing
of the videotape Mean To Be Free: John Brown's Black Nation Campaign by
Jean Libby and Roy Thomas (University of California, 1986). For further
information email heritageroom or call 519-534-5248.
There will be a John Brown Celebration on Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 12:00 PM
at the Old County Courthouse in Elizabethtown, New York, with a keynote
address by Bill Fletcher Jr., a caravan to the John Brown Farm in Lake
Placid at 1:15, and an outdoor celebration beginning at 2:00 PM featuring
African dance and drumming, and presentations by Larry Childs and Dr.
Jewelle Gresham-Nemiroff. For information, contact John Brown
Lives! 518-963-4781 [email protected]
Christopher Densmore, April 24, 2003
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