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Program

Public Programs: Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants

Period of Performance

3/1/2022 - 10/31/2023

Funding Totals

$30,000.00 (approved)
$29,072.31 (awarded)

Discovery Phase – The Ellis Trail to Nicodemus: Revealing Stories in the Landscape of Black Westward Settlement

FAIN: MD-284760-22

Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506-0100)
LaBarbara James Wigfall (Project Director: June 2021 to present)

Development of an interactive website exploring the settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas, through the route taken by early African American settlers.

The goal of this Discovery level project is to create a detailed Design Plan for an interactive website to interpret the Ellis Trail to Nicodemus within broader humanities themes of black westward settlement in the United States.