Local History in a Global Context: Petersburg's African American History in the Context of the Atlantic World

FAIN: AB-50037-08

Virginia State University (Petersburg, VA 23803-2520)
Christina Proenza-Coles (Project Director: June 2007 to June 2011)

To Support: A one-year project to create a research center, a website, and a graduate history curriculum on the history of Petersburg, Virginia's African American community.

To establish a national center of study for "Petersburg and the Atlantic World" that focuses on Petersburg's African American History as a principal theme. The goal of the program is to provide original pedagogical and research opportunities to strengthen Petersburg's educational institutions and establish a center of study and historica preservation that will help to revitalize the area.