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    27 Grants Awarded To African American History Sites; Funder Aims To 'Scale Up'

    The National Historic Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund gave out $1.6 million in grants to sites that tell American history "through the lens of Black humanity and identity."
    by Elizabeth Blair Jul 16, 2020 2 minutes
    In the early 1900s, educator Booker T. Washington and Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald built schools across the South for African American students. May's Lick Rosenwald School, in Maysville, Ky., was built in 1921, and it has received one of 27 preservation grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

    In 1956, actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson said, "My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you." Now, Robeson's home — the in Philadelphia — will receive a grant to help

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