Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

3/1/1983 - 12/31/1983

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Ota Benga: A Case Study of American Racial Attitudes, 1900-1916

FAIN: GN-21007-83

Portico Production Group (New York, NY 10032)
Madison D. Lacy (Project Director: June 1982 to October 1990)

To support planning of a two-hour television program dramatizing the story of Ota Benga, a Batwa Pygmy who was brought by anthropologist S.P. Verner to the United States to be exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair.