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FEBRUARY 2000 during the school year. My primary began this summer when Turkiya Lowe, A New National Historic responsibility is to conduct background an intern from Howard University, gath Landmark Theme Study: research to provide a listing of potential ered information about places listed in Racial Desegregation in sites associated with desegregation. I also the National Register of Historic Places conducted searches for source material associated with the history of desegrega Education and for interested organizations that tion and created a list of potential can Turkiya L. Lowe could provide valuable information on didates for National Historic Landmark National Historic Landmark the history of desegregation and the designation. Twenty-five places listed in Summer Intern, 1999 identification of unregistered properties. the National Register were determined to be possible candidates for NHL The study is under the direction of In October of 1998, Congress autho designation. An announcement about Carol D. Shull, Chief of the National rized the National Park Service to begin the theme study, calling for further in Historic Landmarks Survey, and the a new National Historic Landmark formation and participation, was also Project Manager is Dr. John Sprinkle, Jr., (NHL) Theme Study on the history of mailed to organizations and individuals CO Supervisory Historian with the NHL racial desegregation in the public school on the National Park Service diversity Survey. The Principal Investigator is systems of the United States. As the pro mailing list, as well as to State Historic 4) Susan Salvatore. In completing the verbial 50-year mark approaches on Preservation Officers, Tribal Preserva racial desegregation theme study, the many of the events that shaped the Civil tion Officers, and Federal Preservation National Historic Landmark staff Rights Movement, such as the Brown v. Officers. The study is expected to be welcomes and thanks its partners: the > Board of Education case of 1954, the completed in October, 2000. study seeks to identify nationally signifi National Conference of State Preserva cant sites that represent the history of tion Officers and the Organization of For information, contact John Sprikle at 202/343-8166, e-mail: [email protected] educational segregation and desegrega American Historians. The desegregation theme study will culminate in October tion in the United States. (See "Recent In fiscal year 1999, fiveplace s promoting 2000 with its presentation by the Secre and Ongoing National Register of His cultural diversity were documented and tary of the Interior to Congress. I toric Places Research," next article.) designated National Historic Landmarks: the John Coltrane House, Philadelphia, As a history major now in my senior For more information, contact Susan Salvatore at 202/343-4246, Pennsylvania; Mission Santa Ines, 4) year at Howard University in Washing e-mail: [email protected] Solvang, California; the Chief Plenty ton, DC, I have enjoyed the experience O Coups (Alek-Chea-ahoosh) Home, Big of working on the desegregation theme I MM Horn County, Montana; Woodmont, study. I completed the 10-week intern Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; and Trevion- ship facilitated by the not-for-profit Recent and Ongoing Urbino Ranco, San Ygnacio, Texas. Student Conservation Association, the National Register of I Historic Places Research National Park Service Cultural Resources For information on these and other NHL Diversity Initiative, and the Diversity designations, contact John Sprinkle at Research for a new National Historic Intern Program of the Department of 202/343-8166, e-mail: [email protected] CO Landmark (NHL) Survey theme study, the Interior and am continuing my work continued on page 2 Racial Desegregation in Public Education, for the project on a part-time basis
Douglass High School The Douglass High School was the last I segregated school built in Memphis, Tennessee. Constructed in 1950 and added to in several stages through 1971, rS the school remained segregated many years after the Memphis school system C was forced to integrate. Declining enroll ment ultimately caused the school's o closure in 1981. Recognized for its extraordinary significance to the African- American community of Memphis, the school was listed in the National Register "8 on March 12, 1998. Photo by Judith Johnson z page 1 the education of future professionals in In the summer of 2000, the Cultural this field. The Advisory Group discussed Resources Diversity Internship Program and made recommendations on the will sponsor at least 12 interns. The in development and implementation of terns will be placed in National Park the various programs of the National Service administrative offices, partner Park Service's Cultural Resources Diver ship organizations in the public and pri sity Initiative, including the Diversity vate sectors, and units of the National Internship Program, the Initiative's Park System. Students enrolled at His training programs, and diversity com torically Black Colleges and Universities, munications tools. Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges, other minority-based schools The purpose of the Cultural Resources and academic departments, and other Diversity Initiative is to encourage colleges and universities are encouraged greater minority participation in the pro to apply to this program. fessional fields in historic preservation/ cultural resources stewardship work, The program is administered by the such as history, historical architecture, Cultural Resources Diversity Initiative The Walnut Cove Colored School archeology, museum studies, and others. of the National Park Service and the Built in 1921, the Walnut Cove Colored School in Walnut Cove, North Carolina, was It is a cooperative effort of the National Student Conservation Association. The made possible through a $1,200 matching grant from the Rosenwald Fund, a philan thropic organization that funded African-American school construction throughout Park Service and the National Parks cost of each intern is shared between the the South. While the Rosenwald Fund helped construct 787 schools in North Carolina, Conservation Association. National Park Service, the National Park the Walnut Cove Colored School was the only one funded in rural Stokes County. Foundation, and the intern host sponsor. For copies of the summary report of Students from Walnut Cove and the surrounding community, some having to walk the Advisory Group meeting, contact: For further information on the more than five miles, attended the school, which served as the educational center Moriba McDonald at 202/343-2331, internship program, contact for African-American students in the county for over 30 years. The Walnut Cove e-mail: [email protected] Moriba N. McDonald at 202/343-2331, Colored School was listed in the National Register on February 24, 1995. e-mail: [email protected] Photo by Laura A. W. Phillips Student applications for Cultural Resources internships should be directed to: The Student Conservation Association, Diversity Initiative 1800 N. Kent Street, Suite 1260, topics or periods in American history Internship Program Arlington, VA 22209, 703/524-2441, or visit SCA over the Internet at: that will use National Register of His National Park Internships are an important means of www.sca-inc.org toric Places sites. National Register staff Service Activities introducing young people to the world members are assisting Oxford Press of work. Along with many other federal continued from page 1 researchers on an upcoming volume on agencies and bureaus, the National Park "Landmarks of Liberty," covering issues New NPS Social Service sponsors interns and other Luisa Bonillas, a Ph.D. history student such as the abolition of slavery, the civil Science Program summer employees in its administrative from Arizona State University, worked rights movement, the women's rights Recommends Partnerships With offices and national park units. In the as a summer intern in the National movement, and immigration, and will Historically Black Colleges and summer of 1999, the National Park Register of Historic Places' Teaching be assisting on future volumes on African Universities and Predominantly Service sponsored its first diversity in with Historic Places (TwHP) program, American, Women's, Native American, Hispanic Serving Universities terns in its cultural resources programs. completing research and editing two and Asian American history. Recognizing that National Park visita upcoming lesson plan publications: The The Cultural Resources Diversity Forts of Old San Juan: Guardian of the For information, contact tion is rising, the National Park Service Beth Boland at 202/343-9545, Internship Program is part of the larger has undertaken an effort to study the Caribbean and Gran Quivira: A Blending e-mail: [email protected] NPS Cultural Resources Diversity public's visitation patterns to better of Culture in a Pueblo Indian Village. Initiative, which was established in serve park visitors while protecting park TwHP uses National Register properties October 1998. The goal of the Initiative resources. The effort will study a wide to enliven the teaching of history, social is to diversify the professions that work Cultural Resources variety of factors and include research studies, geography, civics, and other in cultural resources stewardship and Diversity Initiative from a number of partners. One ele subjects. It offers various products and historic preservation. A key component Advisory Group Meets ment of the study is to engage Histori activities, including professional devel of the Initiative, internships for diverse opment materials and classroom-ready cally Black Colleges and Universities, On September 23-24,1999, the Advi students in history, archeology, histori lesson plans. Many of the lesson plans predominantly Hispanic Serving Uni sory Group for the Cultural Resources cal architecture, and museum studies are available for free on the National versities, and other partners in an urban- Diversity Initiative met at the National provide young people with work experi Register Web site www.cr.nps.gov/nr focused university link to conduct Parks Conservation Association head ence, introduce them to this area of (see "New Publications"). research on urban recreation issues. quarters in Washington, DC. Composed work, and assist them with building
For information, contact Beth Boland at of nearly two dozen educators and pres their resumes. The internships also give For more information, or to request a copy 202/343-9545, e-mail: [email protected] ervation practitioners, the Advisory the National Park Service offices an of the NPS social science plan Usable Knowledge, contact: Dr. Gary E. Machlis, Group represents substantial commit opportunity to meet promising young The Nation Park Foundation and Oxford Visiting Chief Social Scientist, National Park ment to the preservation of the nation's people who might choose to work in Service, Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street, University Press are co-producing a series cultural resources and involvement in this field. NW (3127), Washington, DC 20240-0001, of reference books for young readers on phone: 202/208-5391; FAX: 202/208-4620; or e-mail: [email protected]
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FEBRUARY 2000 Texas Historical Advisory Committee Commission Celebrates in Connecticut Helps Black History Month in Increase Minority and Newsletter Women's Participation and Awareness The Texas Historic Commission de voted its January/February 1999 issue The Advisory Committee on Minority of The Medallion, the Commission's and Women's History is charged with newsletter, to "African Americans in increasing minority participation in Texas: An Enduring Legacy" in cele state historic preservation activities, bration of Black History Month. In publicizing Connecticut's cultural cluded are articles on the first African- diversity, and identifying sites associated Americans in Texas, the Civil War, with cultural diversity. Since the Con Buffalo Soldiers, African-American necticut Historic Commission estab communities and social institutions, lished the Advisory Committee in 1990, (A Historically Black Colleges and the state has generated survey topics Universities, and Black History Month and National Register of Historic Places events. The Medallion also announced nominations, and identified important the publication of African Americans in places such as Faith Congregational 0 Texas: Historical and Cultural Legacies, Church in Hartford (Hartford's oldest available free from the Texas Historical African American congregation) and Z Commission, P.O. Box 12276, Austin, the James Pharmacy in Old Saybrook Texas 12276 or e-mail: [email protected]. (Anna Louise James [1886-1977] was ** among the first women, and the first African-American woman, in Connecti c cut to become a pharmacist; the site is also birthplace of Harlem Renaissance 0 writer Ann Petry, James' niece). E c James Pharmacy The James Pharmacy (see related article above) in Old Saybrook, Connecticut was owned and operated between 1918 and 1967 (as seen in this interior image, dated c. 1925) by Anna James, the state's first licensed I African-American woman pharmacist. The James Pharmacy was listed in the o National Register on August 5, 1994. 0 Photo courtesy Connecticut Historical Commission o o •o c (Q 0 "S •M page 3 HERITAGE MATTERS
The Miami partners face the challenge Islands and Los Angeles partnerships FEBRUARY 2000 NPCA's Community of involving minorities in park sites that have developed a strong core of Park Partners Programs are simultaneously close at hand, yet Service personnel and community worlds away from most of South members who will help sustain and Alan Spears Florida's communities of color. Rel expand their groups. National Parks Conservation evance is an especially important issue, Association For information, contact Alan Spears primarily because so many of South at NPCA, 202/223-6722, ext. 236, Florida's natural resources also have an e-mail: [email protected] The Community Partnership Program unknown/unexplored relevance to is a new development of the National African, Latino, and Native American Parks Conservation Association. Born history and culture. Helping the Park from ideas generated at the "America's Museum Association Service capture and tell the "full story" Parks -America's People: A Mosaic in Supports Coalition of Miami's natural resources is of Motion" conference, the partnerships to Improve Diversity paramount importance. bring together community members in Museum Field and Park Service personnel in a series For information, contact Alan Spears of monthly meetings to raise the level at 1/800/628-7275, ext. 236, e-mail: The American Association of Museums [email protected] of awareness in both communities (AAM) Ethnic Professional Interest Committee (PIC) Coalition expanded about the strength of shared resources The Washington, D.C. partners will host this year from the four founding and the commonality of concerns. a "Park Awareness Day" tentatively groups - the AAM Asian Pacific scheduled for the spring of 2000. Four Program objectives include assisting the American PIC, the AAM Latino Net committees of NPS personnel and Park Service diversify its contracting work PIC, the AAM Native American community members are planning the and hiring, introduce a more diverse PIC, and the Association of African event. The objective of "awareness day" population of park visitors, and increase American Museums - to now include is to utilize several park sites to engage stewardship values and environmental/ the AAM AIDS Network, the AAM residents and inform them of opportu historical awareness within communi Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Concerns, nities for employment, volunteer ser ties of color with regard to the nation's the AAM Americans with Disabilities vices, and social/cultural activities the parks. The following provides an over Taskforce, and the Council of American parks offer. view of each of the six active program Jewish Museums. The group will take partnerships. For information, contact Shaka a more pluralistic approach to diversity Thorne at 202/687-8980, e-mail: issues in the museum field. The San Francisco partnership has [email protected] formed committees to address issues The AAM Diversity Coalition meets of hiring, relevancy, and outreach. The The partnerships in Los Angeles and once a month to work on session group also facilitated a relationship Hawaii are in their nascence. The proposals for the AAM annual meeting between local businesses and the Park Diversity Program will institute a and to strategize different ways to Service, introducing community-based routine of monthly meetings for both address concerns for diversity in the entrepreneurs to contacts with the programs within the coming months. museum field. These concerns include 8 In the meantime, both the Hawaiian federal government. • •• For information, contact Alan Spears at 1/800/628-7275, ext. 236, e-mail: "8 [email protected] The Kalepolepo Fishpond ••• In Boston, the Community Partners ••• Located in the Hawaiian traditional district have also had great success in attract of Kula, Island of Maui, the Kalepolepo ing a wide range of Park Service person c Fishpond is one of the best-preserved nel and community activists to meet fishponds (or loko kuapa) on the island. ings at New Bedford Whaling NHP, In active use between 1500 and 1880, the the Charlestown Navy Yard of Boston pond served as an important economic, NHP, and the Eagle Eye Institute, a political, and cultural resource for the a* Somerville based youth outdoor edu people of the Kula District of Maui. The cation program. Kalepolepo Fishpond was listed in the National Register on December 30,1996, c For information, contact Mr. ShaKing recognized as being significant as an Alston at 978/454-7156, e-mail: excellent example of a unique form of 3 [email protected] traditional construction. E Photo by Tryok, Nyman & Hayes, Inc. E oo developing opportunities to support San Elizario Historic District diversity in museum staff, programs, The San Elizario Historic District, located governance, and audiences. In light of on the Camino Real in El Paso County, this, the AAM Diversity Coalition is Texas, is recognized for its association with Spanish and Mexican town planning collaborating with the Association of practices and with Hispanic ethnic heri Research Libraries and the Society of tage and was enrolled in the National American Archivists to devise a pro Register on February 27, 1997. Descended gram of leadership and career develop from the presidio and chapel of San ment. This program, now in the research Elceario established in 1790, the historic and planning stages, will fill a void in district is comprised of Spanish Colonial professional development for mid-career Revival-influenced buildings dating to 1830, including the 1855 Gregory museum and library professionals from Nacenseno Garcia House (pictured), and typically underrepresented groups. archeological sites dating to this and During the multicultural evening event earlier settlements. "Red, Hot & Live" at the 1999 AAM Photo by David Kammer Annual Meeting in Cleveland, the Coalition held a silent auction that raised close to $1000 for scholarships for young professionals to attend future annual meetings. The group Contact Heritage Preservation for which investigates Spanish, French, and result is a heritage tourism strategy would like to supplement this seed application materials at: British colonialism in North America, as designed to spur local economic growth money through donations to provide well as the influence of other immigrant while preserving historic resources. Conservation Assessment Program, more opportunities for scholarships groups as they adapted their native Heritage Preservation, 1730 K Street, NW, For more information, see the Preservation to diverse groups for annual meeting Suite 566, Washington, DC 20006-3835; traditions on the American landscape. Alliance for Greater Philadelphia's Web 2000 or through in-kind donations phone: 202/634-1422; FAX: 202/634-1435; site at: http://www.libertynet.org/historic/ or e-mail: Kristen Overbeck at For more information on the AIA College for next year's silent auction. gtown.html, or call 215/546-1146 x15 [email protected] of Fellows Endowment Fund grants, contact: Carol Baer Mott, Director, College of For information about the Ethnic PIC Coali Fellows, AIA, 1735 New York Avenue, NW, tion, its representatives, or the scholarship Washington, DC 20006-5292; phone: fund, contact John T. Suau, Meetings and 202/626-7468; FAX: 202/626-7426; or Two National Trust Diversity Coordinator at 202/218-7676; or AIA Recognizes Three e-mail: [email protected] Programs Assist Diverse e-mail: [email protected] Diversity Programs With Urban Neighborhoods Endowment Fund Grants The National Trust for Historic Preser The American Institute of Architects Preservation Alliance vation is helping revitalize culturally Grant Funds Available (AIA) College of Fellows Endowment for Greater Philadelphia diverse urban neighborhoods through Through the Conservation Fund awarded 14 grants in 1999 to Studies Germantown its Community Partners Program Assessment Program recognize projects and programs pro Avenue's Diverse History (CCP). CCP is an extension of the moting public awareness of architecture Small- and medium-sized museums can Trust's Inner-City Ventures Fund and encouraging young architects. The Preservation Alliance for Greater take advantage of the Conservation (ICVF) for preservation efforts benefit Grants range from $3,000-$10,000. Philadelphia is using federal Intermodal Assessment Program (CAP) to improve ing the low-income population. CCP KTCA-TV/Twin Cities Public Television Surface Transportation Efficiency Act collections care. CAP is funded annually blends a neighborhood-level revitaliza- in St. Paul, Minnesota received a grant funds to develop a cultural and historic by the Institute of Museum and Library tion model, which includes historic for its documentary on Clarence "Cap" resource study of part of Germantown Services (IMLS) and administered by preservation, with community develop Wigington, Minnesota's first licensed Avenue. The findings will be the basis Heritage Preservation. CAP provides ment planning. The ICVF offers short- African-American architect. Wigington for an economic development strategy grants to fund a general conservation term loans for real estate projects in served as St. Paul's municipal architect for a two-mile section of the avenue. survey of a museum's collections, low-, moderate-, and mixed-income from 1915 to 1949. AIA recognized A steering committee of neighborhood environmental conditions, and sites. historic neighborhoods. Loans are architect Jack Travis for his exhibit religious, business, community, and offered to nonprofit organizations. CAP applications are available in Black Architects: A Historical Overview economic groups joined with represen October of each year and must be and Exhibition, which chronicles the tatives of city government, the Preser For more information contact: Community completed by December of the same role of African-Americans in architec vation Alliance, and consultants to Partners Program, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts ture and related fields. The Johns recommend a strategy to enhance visual year. Grants are awarded on a first- Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036; come, first-served basis. A sample Hopkins University Press received a appearances and historical integrity phone: 202/588-6054; FAX: 202/588-6038; application may be downloaded from grant for Architecture and Town Plan of the Avenue; link the heritage corridor e-mail: [email protected]; or the Heritage Preservation Web site at: ning in Colonial North America, a three- to transportation routes; and capitalize Web site: http://www.nthp.org volume set edited by James D. Kornwolf, on the Avenue's historic character. The http://www.heritagepreservation.org/ continued on page 6 programs/capover.htm
pages Butler Chapel African Methodist Putting Arts and Culture Episcopal Zion Church to Work for Youth and The Butler Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (shown in this Community Life 1955 image) in Tuskegee, Macon Hannah Roberts County, Alabama was the site of a June 25, 1957 protest that initiated the Partners for Livable Communities seven year "Crusade for Citizenship" Washington, DC through which Macon County African- Americans struggled for their civil In 1994, the Carnegie Corporation rights, including enfranchisement. of New York released "A Matter of .v A Butler Chapel is recognized for its Time," a study revealing that youth left "exceptional importance" in the on their own during after-school hours history of the Civil Rights movement between three and eight are far more and was listed in the National Register likely than other youth to become on August 28, 1995. engaged in high-risk activities. In March Pholo by R H. Polk 1998, Shirley Brice Heath at Stanford University released a study that showed that arts and cultural programs provide the best environment for youth to develop personal and practical skills. Arts and culture form identity, demand that individuals take responsibility for consequences, expose youth to risk and criticism, and require discipline. Arts • participation in arts and cultural "Preserving Integrity Through Culture activities reach across academic bound activities is strongly related to other Center for Multicultural and History" (PITCH) Committee, to aries so that students who perform forms of civic engagement; Studies in Historic help establish an urban conservation district in a traditionally African- poorly under traditional educational • cultural participants tend to take a Preservation Opens in American section of the city. The area, models have new opportunities to learn. more positive view their neighborhoods; Decatur, Illinois The study showed that compared to while lacking the mass of structures students not enrolled in arts programs, • arts and culture are central to social The Center for Multicultural Studies in associated with traditional historic youth in arts programs and involved in change movements and play an increas Historic Preservation is a recently districts, is rich in African-American arts organizations: ing role in urban community organiz created and incorporated non-profit cultural history. The PITCH Committee ing. AIDS activists, for example, use organization dedicated to preserving seeks to establish a program to recog • are 25% more likely to report feeling artistic productions to educate commu and promoting multicultural activities nize the import economic, cultural, satisfied with themselves; nity members and organize for change; in the historic preservation field. The and historic contributions African- • are 30% more likely to say they plan to • community arts organizations reduce Center fosters multicultural under Americans have made to Evanston. the isolation of the city's poorer neigh graduate and graduate student partici continue education after high school; To share information on urban conserva borhoods by drawing participants from pation in historical-related research, • are eight times more likely to receive a tion districts with the committee, contact the rest of the region; education, archiving, and public history. Carlson D. Ruiz, Planning Division, community service award; The Center is located at 404 West 2100 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL60201, • neighborhoods with a history of arts • are two times more likely to win an Macon Street, Decatur, IL 62522. phone: 847/866-2928 or e-mail: and cultural activity were more likely [email protected] academic achievement award. than the rest of the region to experience Communities that boast high levels of revitalization during the 1980s. civic participation, dispel isolation Evanston, Illinois, When hinders and politicians question through social networks, and see diver Establishes Urban the value of cultural resources, there is sity as strength also help produce Conservation District hard academic proof that arts and healthy young people. University of culture can help to form healthy young Recognizing African-American Pennsylvania researchers discovered that people and vital communities. Contributions arts and cultural organizations can have For more information, see the Partners for a significant impact on community life The Evanston, Illinois Preservation through a study entitled "The Social Livable Places Web site: www.livable.com or contact Hannah Roberts at: Partners for Commission has established an ad hoc Impact of the Arts." The study has Livable Communities, 1429 21st Street, NW, committee of citizens, known as the found that: Washington, DC 20036; phone: 202/887-5990; FAX: 202/466-4845
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institutes for minorities, and monitor A number of Teaching with Historic
FEBRUARY 2000 Minority Participation success by maintaining contact with Places lesson plans are now available for in Post-Graduate participating students. free on the National Register of Historic Web site www.cr.nps.gov/nr, including: History Programs Cunningham and Freeman each Old Courthouse in St. Louis: Yesterday and stressed that their experience with the Report by the Organization of Today (site of the Dred Scott trial) American Historians Minority Fellows OAH-IU Fellowship was rewarding while calling on other institutions and When Rice was King (about antebellum rice plantations) Daphne L. Cunningham and Damon organizations in history-related fields Iron Hill School (about an early 20th century W. Freeman, the first two Organization to do a better job at efforts to increase one-room African-American schoolhouse) minority participation. of American Historians-Indiana Uni Clara Barton's House: Home of the America versity (OAH-IU) Minority Fellows, (See related article about NPS-sponsored Red Cross have written summaries of the state of diversity internship programs, page 2.) Both Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: minority participation in history grad reports may be found at http://www.oah.org A Colorado Success Story uate programs and OAH's efforts to First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt increase minority Ph.Ds. in various at Val Kill history-related fields. National Register of Historic Places Cunningham's report, "Feeding the Publications Feast of the Dead Pipeline: The Organization of American Historians-Indiana University Minority The National Register of Historic Places, For more than a century, archeologists page 7 HERITAGE MATTERS FEBRUARY 2000 Robert Stanton National Park Service Director 1849 C Street NW, Suite 350NC Washington, DC 20240 Katherine H. Stevenson Associate Director, Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships John Robbins Assistant Director Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnership Programs Antoinette J. Lee Special Projects Manager Scott D. Whipple Heritage Matters Editor Moriba N. McDonald Historian Mission of the National Park Service February 2000 The National Park Service is dedicated to conserving unimpaired the natural and cultural page 1 resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education and National Park Service Activities Grant Funds Available Through the inspiration of this and future generations. The Service is also responsible for managing a A New National Historic Landmark Theme Conservation Assessment Program great variety of national and international Study: Racial Desegregation in Education CO AIA Recognizes Three Diversity Programs programs designed to help extend the benefits Recent and Ongoing National Register With Endowment Fund Grants of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country DC of Historic Places Research Philadelphia Preservation Alliance Studies and the world. Germantown Avenue's Diverse History JJ Cultural Resources Diversity Initiative Advisory Group Meets Two National Trust Programs Assist Heritage Matters, sponsored by the Cultural Resources Programs of the National Park Cultural Resources Diversity Initiative Diverse Urban Neighborhoods Service, is published twice-a-year and is free of Internship Program Putting Arts and Culture to Work for charge. Readers are invited to submit short Youth and Community Life New NPS Social Science Program articles and notices for inclusion. (Limit submis < sions to fewer than 400 words and include Recommends Partnerships Center for Multicultural Studies in Historic author's name and affiliation. Black and white Preservation Opens in Decatur, Illinois page 3 photographs or slides are welcome. Photocop Evanston, Illinois Establishes Urban ied images will not be accepted.) Please submit State and Local Government News Conservation District Recognizing newsletter items in writing or electronically to: LU Texas Historical Commission Celebrates African-American Contributions Scott D. Whipple, Editor, Heritage Matters, Black History Month in Newsletter DOI/National Park Service, 1849 C Street, NW, page 7 Suite 350NC, Washington, DC 20240. Phone: Advisory Committee in Connecticut Helps 202/343-1000, e-mail: [email protected] CD Research, Reports, Publications Increase Minority, Women's Participation Report on the State of Minority Participation This newsletter was produced in cooperation page 4 in Post-Graduate History Programs with the National Park Foundation. Community Initiatives National Register of Historic Places For additional information on the National Park DC NPCA's Community Partners Program Publications Service Cultural Resources Diversity Initiative, including background, links to Initiative-related LU Museum Association Supports Coalition Feast of the Dead programs and partners, reading lists, and more, to Improve Diversity in Museum Field please visit the Cultural Resources Diversity Initiative Web site at: http://www2.cr.nps.gov/ diversity/index.htm