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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Alabama State University has received $2 million for a voting rights center. The Montgomery Advertiser reports the state has awarded $800,000 to ASU’s National Center for the Study of Civil Rights.
That grant is in addition to $1.2 million already awarded by the Alabama Department of Conservation to build an interpretive center commemorating the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights march in 1965. A school official tells The Advertiser the new center is expected to cost between $15 and $20 million but the voting rights portion is expected to cost about $3 million.
The project is reportedly in conjunction with the National Park Service which named the university as the site of the interpretive center about two years ago. School officials hope to have the center completed by March of 2015--the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
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Keywords: Alabama State University,National Center Study Civil Rights,Alabama Department Conservation,National Park Service
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