Firelight Media Grant



Organization - Firelight Media
Grant Amount - $200,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of producing and distributing "Brown+50," a series of five short film segments that addresses the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, which mandated desegregation of schools across America


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Editorial Projects in Education - $100,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of the publication and dissemination of an Education Week magazine series reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, which mandated the desegregation of schools across America

Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York - $209,864 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Center for Human Environments' Opportunity Gap Research Project toward a dance performance and costs associated with the dissemination through multimedia venues of "Echoes: Youth Perspectives on Racial Justice and Public...

New York University (Affiliation. See Notes.) - $100,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Steinhardt School of Education's Metropolitan Center for Urban Education to present a two-day forum commemorating the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision mandating the desegregation of schools across America

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - $750,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of public education efforts, including a national symposium and the production of educational materials, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision mandating the desegregation...

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - $350,000 from the Ford Foundation - For litigation, advocacy and public education to promote equal educational opportunities for Latino students in the wake of the Supreme Court Louisville, Ky., and Seattle school desegregation decision

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