SOHP Receives Collaborative Research Grant from the NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $150,000 Collaborative Research Grant to the SOHP for ”Eyewitnesses to the Movement: Black, White, and Multiracial Media in Civil Rights-Era North Carolina,” a project spearheaded by our Digital Humanities Coordinator Seth Kotch in collaboration with historian Josh Davis. The project seeks to create a local, ground-up history of the Civil Rights movement in NC through roughly 50 interviews with journalists who covered the movement in newspapers, television, radio, and other formats. The idea behind the project is that histories of the media and the movement often take a bird’s eye view that fails to analyze how local southern media reported on and contributed to the movement in ways very different from that of the national press. Congratulations to Seth and the SOHP!