The Alicia Patterson Foundation has merged into the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

This site is now an archive. For active programs, grants, and fellowships, visit fij.org.

Diane Granat’s Patterson research was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The schools built by Julius Rosenwald, who is the subject of DIANE GRANAT’s Patterson research, were added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 most endangered historic sites. Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., paid for 4,977 schools for black students in the American South.