campus partner(s)

Samford University

state(s)

AL

amount

$25,000

initiative

Knowledge for Freedom

award date

11.2023

project director

Lee Trapenier

Grant Summary

$25,000 over 12 months to set up the necessary infrastructure to implement a Knowledge for Freedom program in Summer 2025 or 2026. The program will feature transformative texts that explore questions about freedom and responsibility, focusing on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and the history of Birmingham, Alabama.