Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Period of Performance

10/1/1987 - 3/31/1989

Funding Totals

$150,000.00 (approved)
$150,000.00 (awarded)


We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: Black-Owned Book Publishing In the United States, 1817-1987

FAIN: GL-20788-87

CUNY Research Foundation, City College (New York, NY 10031-9101)
Betty L. Jenkins (Project Director: March 1987 to July 1989)

To support a keynote address, an exhibition, lectures, a book fair, a one-day conference on the history and current state of black book publishing in the United States, and a conference on publishing black children's literature.