Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1992 - 9/30/1998

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$2,125,600.00 (approved)
$2,125,600.00 (awarded)


Public Television Series: Africans in America

FAIN: GN-24544-92

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Peter S. McGhee (Project Director: March 1993 to October 1999)

Funding details:
Original grant (1992) $1,500,600.00
Supplement (1997) $625,000.00

To support partial production of the second two-hour television program in a six-hour documentary series on the role of Africans and African Americans in the development of the nation from 1619 to the Civil War.