The Southern Poverty Law Center provides $50,000 in grants to support civil rights museums. A memorial to the victims of the explosion at a munitions plant in 1973, and a monument to enslaved women who were subjected to medical experiments.
Five Black historic sites will receive grants from Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), including the “Mothers of Gynecology” monument, the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, the Thiokol Memorial Project, the Fannie Lou Hamer Museum, and the Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum.
Original post by Livia Gershon/Daily Correspondent-Smithsonian Magazine
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