WICHITA — The Kansas African American Museum
has received a $25,000 grant to establish a statewide history and genealogy program called “Knowing Me, Knowing You.”
The program is designed for anyone with a contribution to Kansas African American history.
The grant, awarded by the Chester and Ada Franklin Scholarship Fund and co-trustees Bank of America and Samuel L. Adams, will allow the Wichita museum’s staff to set up video cameras at six Kansas towns with important African-American ties: Nicodemus, Topeka, Kansas City, Wichita, Hutchinson and Weir.
The staff will then collect stories and other information from residents and place them into a permanent archive, which, when edited, could be made available on the museum’sWeb site for purchase, said Mark Mccormick, the museum’s director.
Read the full article by Beccy Tanner in the October 29, 2009 edition of the Wichita Eagle.
