Title
Resolution Approving the City of Hampton, Virginia's Participation in and Appropriation of the 2016 Open Grant Program through the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
This is the first time we have applied and received this grant. The organizing partners for this project include: Luci Cochran, Executive Director, Hampton History Museum; Linda Janet Holmes, M.P.A., lives in Hampton; Zachary D. McKiernan, Ph.D (recently left Hampton University for position in California).
The purpose of this project/grant is to raise the visibility of Virginia’s first sit-in demonstrations and to build a sustainable tradition around its history through public presentation, community conversations, oral histories, and continued scholarship. Through the prism of the F.W. Woolworth building located at 10-12 E. Queen Street in Hampton, Virginia, and the story of the student activist from Hampton Institute (now University) who challenged the color-line at the Woolworth’s lunch counter of February 10, 1960, the project will broaden our region’s understanding of and role in the modern civil rights movement. Project collaborators-sit-in veterans, artists, scholars, museum professionals, and students, to name a few-will spark a series actions, to include a public visual presentation of historic panels to mark the Woolworth building, community conversations concerning race and remembrance, collecting efforts to preserve the artifacts that illuminate this story, and oral histories with sit-in veterans. From these actions, the project is expected to be sustained through a small civil rights exhibit produced by the Hampton History Museum in the future, and possible research that digitally maps the impact of the Hampton students’ human rights movement in dismantling spatial/racial segregation-past and present-as well as an annual commemorative events on February 10.
The project outlined in this grant proposal directly links to mission of and vision o...
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