Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Period of Performance

6/1/1979 - 12/31/1979

Funding Totals

$17,153.45 (approved)
$17,153.45 (awarded)


Lower Tidewater Virginia in Black and White, 1776-1976

FAIN: GL-*0355-79

Portsmouth Public Library (Portsmouth, VA 23704-3607)
Margaret Stewart (Project Director: August 1978 to October 1990)

To plan a public program based on the Library's local history collections which will focus on racial relations during the past 200 years in lower Tidewater Virginia.

To plan a program on the history of black and white interrelationships during the last 200 years in lower Tidewater, Virginia, utilizing the library's holdings in local history, sociology, cultural anthropology, jurisprudence and ethics.