Program

Federal/State Partnership: State Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Period of Performance

5/1/1969 - 8/31/1970

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$49,910.00 (approved)
$49,910.00 (awarded)


Watts Writers Workshop and Affiliated Branches

FAIN: SO-10015-69

Douglass House Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)
Budd Schulberg (Project Director: May 1969 to present)

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Douglass House workshops, cultural centers in ghetto communities designed to develop and nurture creative talents in the arts and humanities. Idea originated in Watts after the 1965 riots.