African American Cultural Heritage Fellowship and Civil Rights Trail

FAIN: ZPP-283503-22

Cleveland Restoration Society, Inc. (Cleveland, OH 44115-2746)
Kathleen H. Crowther (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2025)

Creation of a new humanities position that would support the creation of an African American Civil Rights Trail.

Funding from NEH will support a one-year, full-time African American Cultural Heritage Fellowship at the Cleveland Restoration Society (CRS) for an emerging BIPOC professional. This position will offer emergency pandemic relief by providing the staff resources necessary to implement CRS’s African American Civil Rights Trail (the Trail) project. The Trail is intended to foster an appreciation of the places and figures behind significant events that occurred in Cleveland during the civil rights movement from 1954-76, provide context within the broader picture of the struggle for civil rights that continues today, and promote civil discourse and social change. The Fellow will be responsible for researching, curating, and uploading in-depth humanities content to the Trail’s dedicated website; conducting oral histories with elders in the community; coordinating community events; and completing other tasks that are critical to project implementation.