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Florida A&M University wins a grant aimed at saving history at Black colleges & universities

A display in memoriam to the late Florida Congresswoman Carrie Meek at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives on the FAMU campus commemorates her life and achievements. Meek was a FAMU grad.
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A display in memoriam to the late Florida Congresswoman Carrie Meek at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives on the FAMU campus commemorates her life and achievements. Meek was a FAMU grad.

ATLANTA (AP) — A national nonprofit is giving more than $650,000 in grants to five historically Black colleges and universities to help preserve their campuses.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation this week announced the grants through its HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative. The Washington-based trust aims to help the institutions develop campus preservation plans.

The grants are going to Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida; Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi; Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina; Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina; and Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina.