Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1985 - 8/31/1989

Funding Totals

$60,000.00 (approved)
$60,000.00 (awarded)


Black Writers in America: History Through the Literary Imagination

FAIN: GN-22531-85

Magus, Inc. (Silver Spring, MD 20907)
Samuel D. Pollard (Project Director: March 1985 to March 1991)

To support the writing of scripts for a two-part, two-hour series on contemporary American black history as seen by black writers from World War II to 1968, including James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, John Oliver Killens, John A. Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and others.