The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Greensboro History Museum. The grant will fund the museum’s Voices of a City exhibition inclusion project, Beyond O. Henry: Gray Johnson, McAdoo, Faulkner and Ragsdale.

The Greensboro History Museum project will expand its current core history exhibition to include several historically significant residents of national impact in the arts and mathematics from communities underrepresented in the historical narrative of Greensboro. There is a small gallery in the pre-WWII area of the core history exhibition that will be redesigned to include the African American Harlem Renaissance-era artist Malvin Gray Johnson; formerly enslaved Orpheus McAdoo who brought Black American music to South Africa in the late 1800s; musician Margaret Mitchell Faulkner who founded NC A&T's music department; and mathematician Virginia Ragsdale, known for her 1906 Ragsdale Conjecture.

The NEH’s Public Impact Project at Smaller Organizations Grants Program supports America’s small and mid-sized cultural organizations, especially those from underserved communities, in enhancing their interpretive strategies and strengthening their public humanities programming. There were 28 grants, totaling $677,664, awarded this year.