Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1984 - 3/31/1985

Funding Totals

$25,523.00 (approved)
$25,523.00 (awarded)


Planning for an Exhibition on the Role of Black Churches in Newport from 1845 to 1945

FAIN: GM-21978-84

Rhode Island Black Heritage Society (Providence, RI 02908-1940)
Rowena Stewart (Project Director: October 1984 to October 1990)

To support an interpretive exhibition on the black church in Newport, Rhode Island between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, which will focus on the rites and customs that characterize Newport's black churches.