Action Fund Grant Stories

Since 2018, the National Trust has awarded grants to places and organizations that help the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund achieve its mission of protecting, restoring, and interpreting African American historic sites and uncovering hidden narratives of African Americans and their contribution to the American story.

Preservation Magazine Legacies and Legends: A Florida Museum Network Focuses on Black History
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Preserving the Henry Ossawa Tanner House
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Preserving the Home and Studio of L.V. Hull, An “Unusual Artist"
HOPE Crew Preserving the Threatt Filling Station on Route 66
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Threatt Filling Station: “Grandpa Would Be Proud … Because We Didn’t Give Up”
Preservation Magazine An Ode to Home: Historic House and Garden Museum Honors Poet Anne Spencer
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund $3.8M in Action Fund Grants Help Protect 40 African American Historic Sites
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund 5 for 5: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Sites You Should Know More About
Preservation Magazine How A Once-Notorious Site of Enslavement Became a Bastion of Black History in Alexandria, Virginia
Preserving Black Churches 35 Historic Black Churches Receive $4 Million Investment
Preservation Magazine Elizabeth Alexander on the "Urgent and Sacred Mission" of Saving Black History Sites
Preservation Magazine How the Free Black Community of Weeksville Rose in 19th-Century Brooklyn

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