Grant to fund Latino American history programming for the public
Eliseo Medina, left and Dolores Huerta at a 1971 march in Chicago.
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The University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo Center for Arkansas History and Culture soon will host a Latino Americans program that will be free and open to the public.
UALR was one of about 200 recipients of 鈥淟atino Americans: 500 Years of History鈥� grants selected from throughout the country by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, as part of a competitive grant process.
The $3,000 grant will help the center hold public programming that might include events such as film screenings, oral history initiatives, local history exhibits, or discussions about Latino history and culture.
The center will partner with the UALR Department of International and Second Language Studies and the .
A full event schedule will be available in August.
To read more about the grant, visit the .
