Two Oregon sites significant to Black history — the University of Oregon’s McKenzie Hall and the Letitia Carson Legacy Project at Oregon State University — received preservation grants from the national African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
McKenzie Hall, designed in 1968 by DeNorval Unthank Jr., will receive a $150,000 Conserving Black Modernism grant. The Letitia Carson Legacy Project, honoring an Oregon settler, was awarded $50,000 from the fund’s National Grant Program.
In all, 24 African American historic sites across the country will share $3 million in the new grant initiative, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation…