University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Grant



Organization - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grant Amount - $300,000
Foundation - Ford Foundation
Grant Purpose - To support the legal, policy and community-based strategies to protect equal educational opportunities in the wake of the school desegregation Supreme Court decision in Louisville and Seattle


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