Program

Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils

Period of Performance

9/1/2007 - 3/31/2010

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$85,100.00 (approved)
$75,100.00 (awarded)


We the People: Learning Who We Are

FAIN: BC-50394-07

Mississippi Humanities Council (Jackson, MS 39211-6453)
Barbara Carpenter (Project Director: May 2007 to November 2013)
Stuart Rockoff (Project Director: November 2013 to June 2011)

Mississippi Moments segments on public radio, the Mississippi Online Timeline and a teacher workshop on Mississippi writers.

The MHC will use We the People funds to continue programs and provide adequate staffing to carry out these plans. Dissemination of oral history materials through “Mississippi Moments” and other means, putting the first segments of the timeline online for public use, and a workshop for teachers of literature based on four Mississippi writers will be funded, as will partial salary for a person to coordinate the programs.