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NEOSHO, Mo. — The Carver Birthplace Association has been selected to receive a $70,000 grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to put toward the Neosho Colored School.

The 1872 school listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a rare surviving example of a Reconstruction-era African American school.

The National Trust names 40 historic sites as 2023 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grantees.

The church on West 14th Street, the first in Manhattan created for a Spanish-speaking congregation a century ago, has been deconsecrated. Its future is uncertain.

The church on West 14th Street, the first in Manhattan created for a Spanish-speaking congregation a century ago, has been deconsecrated. Its future is uncertain. A report by John Freeman Gill for The New York Times. The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic house of worship on West 14th Street, is a grandly…

The only known surviving segregated public school in NYC from Jim Crow that served Black students was recently landmarked.

The Colored School No. 4 served Black students from 1860 through 1894. In a unanimous vote the structure was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Colored School No. 4, constructed for Black children during the slavery era, has been named an official landmark in New York City.

The last known colored school in Manhattan is now a designated landmark in New York City.

New York City will also provide $6 million in funding to rehabilitate the building, which for 34 years was home to a school for Black children during segregation.