We The People Programs in Arkansas

FAIN: BC-50538-10

Arkansas Humanities Council (Little Rock, AR 72201-1844)
Paul S. Austin (Project Director: May 2010 to May 2010)
Lavona Wilson (Project Director: May 2010 to September 2014)

To support History Day in Arkansas, and continuation of the African American cemetery program to preserve, document and interpret African American cemeteries and African American communities in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Humanities Council proposes to use its 2010 We the People allocation to support two projects that are consistent with the WTP initiative and that reflect two of our core program emphases, strengthening and supporting humanities teaching and learning in Arkansas school classrooms and supporting statewide efforts to document and interpret Arkansas history and heritage. We propose to provide contractual support to the University of Central Arkansas for History Day in Arkansas and to apply the bulk of this year's WTP funds to broadening the impact of our own four-year-old initiative to support local groups working to preserve, document, and interpret hundreds of imperiled African American cemeteries around Arkansas