Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

8/1/1975 - 5/31/1976

Funding Totals

$50,000.00 (approved)
$50,000.00 (awarded)


The Nineteenth Century Black Community in Boston

FAIN: GM-10525-75

Museum of African American History (Boston, MA 02108-3710)
Byron Rushing (Project Director: August 1975 to present)

The Museum proposes a two part audio visual exhibit comprising a slide presentation and film introducing its audience to Afro- American community life in 19th century Boston, and to the problems and techniques of researching and discovering social or non-elitist history in general and Afro-American history in particular.