Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program
Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program
Georgia State University has received a $500,000 grant to develop archival, historical and cultural research to preserve and protect the heritage and sacred land of Gullah/Geechee communities in Georgia and South Carolina.
The grant will help establish the Gullah/Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP) dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors. With the Mellon Foundation’s support, GGSLP will create undergraduate and graduate humanities curricula and foster research, heritage preservation and community engagement to create new knowledge about the history and significance of Black sacred land traditions and protect ancestral burial grounds.
