Alabama NewsCenter — Auburn’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ History Project to Receive $189,837 NEH Grant

By Mitch Emmons
Auburn University

An Auburn University multidisciplinary project focused on the infamous “Bloody Sunday” civil rights event in Selma on March 7, 1965, is the recipient of an award as part of $28.4 million in humanities grants recently announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Co-directed by professors Elijah Gaddis and Keith Hébert of the Department of History, the project, titled “Bloody Sunday, Selma and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” is the recipient of a $189,837 award in the “Landmarks of American History and Culture” category. One of five awards in that category, Auburn’s grant will support a pair of weeklong workshops to include 72 K-12 educators in field studies that focus on the significance of Selma in the early days of the civil rights movement.

“We plan to deeply immerse workshop participants in the landscape and built environment that existed in 1965 and in learning about the participants and events that led up to and included the march from Selma to Montgomery and the clash between marchers and law enforcement that came to be known as Bloody Sunday,” Gaddis said.

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