NEH Common Heritage Grant Award: Preserving and Sharing the Story of the Lincoln Heights Rosenwald School
The Appalachian State University History Department and University Libraries has received a National Endowment of the Humanities Common Heritage grant to provide a digitization event for the Lincoln Heights Recreation Corporation. Lincoln Heights is a large Rosenwald school for African Americans in Wilkesboro, NC. Open from 1924-68, Lincoln Heights educated and employed black southerners through the Jim Crow Era and the height of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement. Since its closure, alumni and community members have been working to preserve and share their story, and have invited members of Appalachian State University's history department and library to assist that mission. This one-day event will involve digitizing artifacts associated with the school provided by the alumni, and public programming will include stories about those artifacts as well as their memories about growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. We will also screen the documentary Rosenwald, and follow it with a talk on the Rosenwald school building program to provide national context for this local experience.
The Preserving and Sharing the Story of the Lincoln Heights Rosenwald School has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Common Heritage Grant.
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