Greenwood Community Development Corporation (Tulsa, OK 74120-1444)
Larry Tease (Project Director: May 2020 to present)
GA-274742-20
Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
Public Programs
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Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$28,600 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2020 – 12/31/2020
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Cultural Programming on Greenwood led by the (GCDC)
The addition of five staff members to re-open a historic site focused on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
The grant applicant, the Greenwood Community Development Corporation, manages a historic site that is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The GCDC needs to sanitize spaces so that, when social distancing ends, the site is ready to welcome visitors who desire to learn Greenwood’s history. The GCDC has a mission to preserve Greenwood’s history and focus on the successes of black entrepreneurs in the Greenwood District before and after the race massacre in 1921. The essence of the project is to sanitize all spaces, prepare a new exhibit,on-site & virtual tour, minor alteration of the visitor center & interpretation site, and create plaques/posters for the business owners that thrived after the massacre. The project start date is Wednesday, July 1,2020. The end date is Thursday, December 31, 2020.
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