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Program

Public Programs: Digital Projects for the Public: Prototyping Grants

Period of Performance

4/1/2022 - 9/30/2022

Funding Totals

$100,000.00 (approved)
$100,000.00 (awarded)

Striking Back, Striding Forward

FAIN: MT-284717-22

Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710-2597)
Richard L. Wormser (Project Director: June 2021 to March 2023)

Development of a prototype of an interactive website on protests and desegregation of Farmville, Virginia, public schools.

The proposed i-doc interactive website tells the story of Barbara Johns, a 16-year old student who organized a student protest agains her segregated school in Farmville, Virginia in 1951 that led to the Supreme Court declaring segregation in public education unconstitutional.