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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $325,043 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a rich collection of digitized material integrated into a map-based website that tracks how urban renewal changed the City of Little Rock in the decades following the Central High School desegregation crisis.
The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) will lead the project, “Mapping Urban Fracture: Charting the Context and Consequence of the Little Rock Central High Crisis Project.” The center’s director, Dr. Deborah Baldwin, associate provost of collections and archives, will serve as the principal investigator for the three-year project that begins June 1.
(UA Little Rock)
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a three-year, $325,043 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a collection of digitized material integrated into a map-based website.
The project, which begins June 1, will track how urban renewal changed the city of Little Rock in the decades following the Central High School desegregation crisis. It will make historic materials available to the public for free as well.
The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture will lead the project, “Mapping Urban Fracture: Charting the Context and Consequence of the Little Rock Central High Crisis Project.” The center’s director, Deborah Baldwin, associate provost of collections and archives, will serve as the principal investigator.
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