The National Park Service has awarded the City of Memphis' Division of Housing and Community Development a $400,000 federal grant to support the revitalization of Clayborn Temple, a important site in African-American and history and the Civil Rights movement.
The grant is secured through the African American Civil Rights Grant Program for the Clayborn Temple Preservation Project. The Memphis church is one of 39 projects in 20 states to receive funding for preserving and highlighting sites associated with the Civil Rights movement.
“The Clayborn Temple has held a prominent role in our city’s and nation’s history, serving as the organizing location and starting point for the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968," said Congressman Steve Cohen in a release. "Clayborn Temple focuses to again become a spiritual and cultural hub for the city, as it is the gateway between Downtown, the Central Business District, Beale Street, the FedEx Forum and South City.”
Congressman Cohen’s recommendation letter can be found
here.
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