African American Civil Rights Grant Projects

Repairing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -- Preservation, Repair and Restoration of the Historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The African American Civil Rights (AACR) Grant Program provides funding to projects that seek to document, interpret, and preserve sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens during the 20th Century. This competitive grant program provides grants to states, tribes, local governments, and nonprofits.

AACR grants fund a broad range of planning, development, and research projects for historic sites including: survey, inventory, documentation, interpretation, education, architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and "bricks and mortar" repair. The related People and Places articles listed here show examples of projects that have been funded and successfully completed through this program since its inception.