"The Long Road: America's Civil Rights Story"

FAIN: GA-50001-13

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York, NY 10036-5900)
Susan F. Saidenberg (Project Director: October 2012 to October 2018)

Funding details:
Original grant (2013) $242,270.00
Supplement (2013) $575,400.00
Supplement (2014) $15,375.00

The distribution of four NEH-funded films on Civil Rights history (The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, Freedom Riders and The Loving Story) accompanied by a website, educational resources, and discussion guides, to public libraries and schools to encourage public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in U.S. history. Scheduled to launch in 2013 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and continue over three years (from 2013 to 2016).