Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1986 - 9/30/1993

Funding Totals

$700,000.00 (approved)
$232,516.00 (awarded)


Bricks and Straw: The Early Career of Booker T. Washington

FAIN: GN-22811-86

New Images Productions, Inc. (Berkeley, CA 94708-1449)
Avon Kirkland (Project Director: March 1986 to September 1994)

To support production of two 60-minute dramatic programs focusing on the early career of Booker T. Washington, ages 24 to 26. These two programs treat three years of his rise to prominence in the 1890s. Two subsequent programs will focus on his later years, ages 40 to 55.