National Archives Grants — November 2020

Several of the V/AR-DHI Facilitator team members, including Regis Kopper, Victoria Szabo, Augustus Wendell, and Dave Zielinski, are part of a successful grant proposal by Johnson C. Smith College to created urban augmented reality experiences in Charlotte. We look forward to working with our colleagues at JCSU on finding ways to draw upon our experiences in Durham with the Digital Durham project, and in the V/AR-DHI group to help realize this project, and to apply lessons learned to Durham and other projects. We also hope to extend this conversation back to the NCCU-Duke Digital Humanities Fellows Community.

from the National Archives website: 

Johnson C. Smith College
Charlotte, NC            $194,938
To support a collaborative project with partners from Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Duke University’s Digital Humanities Lab to create an online exhibit on the effects of urban renewal in African American neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina. The partners will digitize and provide contextualization of documents and other records in an augmented reality digital environment. The project aims to trace the impact of urban renewal strategies that resulted in “lost” communities. Users will learn about segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the Fair Housing Act, Black entrepreneurship, social and voluntary club life, leadership, Black families and institutions. (RM103139-21)

https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/awards/awards-11-20

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