The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced Thursday that it has committed to a $17 million donation over five years to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
$15 million will fund the Center’s new three-story West Wing, while the remaining $2 million will “[seek] to connect our racial history to the present, bring diverse groups together, and make progress through conversation and leadership,” according to a press release.
The newly funded West Wing will host the Without Sanctuary Collection of postcards of lynching and anti-lynching artifacts and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.