GHC Awards $61,305 in Grants

The following grants were awarded on January 31, 2012:

Atlanta
2012 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
American Jewish Committee
$2,000

Georgia Legislative Black Caucus: Remembering our Legends and Honoring our Torchbearers
Azalea City Chapter/The Links
$2,000

Black Women Film Festival: Julie Dash Lecture
Black Women Film Network
$2,000

W.E.B. Dubois Major Works: Clark Atlanta University Open Seminar Series
Clark Atlanta University
$2,000

Living History Program: Through the Eyes of a Friend
Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
$1,705

Southern Writers Onstage
Georgia State University Research Foundation
$1,957

Dr. U. B. Phillips: A LaGrange Native Shapes America’s Understanding of Slavery
Historic Chattahoochee Commission
$1,750

Faith, Freedom, and Foreign Policy
Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College
$2,000

Rabbit Tales: Ethics and the Arts Seminar on the Adaptation of Br’er Rabbit Stories
The Atlanta Opera
$1,275

Grits, Greens, and Griots
Truly Living Well Center for National Urban Agriculture
$2,000

Augusta
Saving the Voices from Augusta’s Past
Augusta State University
$2,000

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Augusta State University
$1,974

Remembering the Past, Participating in the Present, and Ensuring the Future of the Laney-Walker Boulevard Corridor
Eta Theta Zeta Foundation/Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Paine College
$2,000

Athens
Finding our Common Values - Past, Present and Future - through Film and Discussion
Athens Jewish Film Festival
$2,000

Brunswick
The American Civil War: Still Relevant, Still Decisive
Gould Memorial Library/College of Coastal Georgia
$2,000

Cave Spring
Fairview Heritage Play: A Place of Pride and Dignity
Fairview/E. S. Brown Heritage Corporation
$1,900

Columbus
February House: A Celebration of Carson McCuller’s 95th Birthday
Columbus State University
$1,763

Dalton
2012 Civil War in the Western Theater Colloquium “Georgians go to War: 1862”
The Bandy Heritage Center for NW Georgia/Dalton State College
$2,000

Darien
Glynn County and Coastal Community College of Georgia Ethnic Festival
McIntosh County Shouters
$2,000

Kennesaw
Center for Accountable Leaders
Kennesaw State University
$2,000

Lithonia
Redressing the Stone: the Lithonia Story
DeKalb Lawyers Association Community and Education Fund
$2,000

Macon
Asking About “Ask Your Mama”
Friends of the Douglass Theatre Complex
$2,000

Madison
A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison
Madison Morgan Cultural Center
$2,000

Savannah
2012 Preservation Lecture Series
Historic Savannah Foundation
$2,000

23rd Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival
Savannah State University
$2,000

Toccoa
Oral Histories: Tugaloo Corridor
Tugaloo Corridor/ Stephens County Foundation
$1,500

Thomaston
Lost Language and Stories of Glenwood Cemetery
Upson Historical Society
$1,681

Tifton
Bring Shakespeare to Tifton!
Tifton-Tift County Public Library
$2,000

Waleska
Etowah Valley Iron: Making and the Coming of the Civil War
Reinhardt University
$2,000

Valdosta
Azalea International Folk Fair: Georgia’s Official International Festival
Valdosta Asian Cultural Association
$2,000

Dimensions of Personal Politics in the Deep South: Georgia Women Review Their Lives
Valdosta State University/Department of History
$2,000

Zebulon
Lightning Strikes Twice: Legal and Illegal Whiskey Production in the South
Pike Historic Preservation, Inc.
$1,800

These projects are supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.  Congratulations to each organization that received an award. 

The next Georgia Humanities Council grant application deadline is September 1, 2012.  For more information on how to apply visit the "Grants" section of our site.