The Eastside Project

Delta State University, Cleveland, Miss. – $29,500 to expand The Eastside Project. Through oral history interviews and public screenings of the documentary film, “Educational Divide: The Story of Eastside Highschool,” the project will document, preserve and raise awareness of the history of East Side High School, a historically all-Black school in Cleveland that closed in 2017 after a 2016 federal order mandated consolidation of Cleveland School District.

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