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national park service awards lia preservation funds to support sydnor cabin!

In May 2024, Literacy InterActives - in partnership with Preservation Virginia - was awarded a $258,000 grant from the African American Civil Rights grant program to preserve and rehabilitate the Sydnor cabin. This funding, administered by the National Park Service through the Historic Preservation Fund, will include engineering and architectural services and complete building stabilization and rehabilitation. This is a major victory for LIA, and preservation work will begin in spring 2025.

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LIA Recognition

LIA has been recognized repeatedly for innovative programming and developing resources that preserve and share African American history in rural Southside.

Preservation Virginia added the Parker Sydnor Cabin site to its annual listing of the “Ten Most Endangered Historic Sites” in Virginia in 2022. (See press release, pp. 12-13)


The American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award for the 2021 videoconferenced program series, “This is Us,” on church history preservation in Virginia; see 2022 LIA newsletter (p. 3).


“This is Us: Preserving Our Church Histories," a $24,000 grant for a video conference series in April 2021 hosting more than 1,254 attendees; see 2021 LIA newsletter (p. 3).


George W.B. Stoner and Melville M. Jennings Research and Education Award for Outstanding Historic Preservation Research Achievements; see 2020 LIA newsletter. 


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