The Michigan Humanities Council this week announced over 95-thousand dollars in grants to support arts programs around the state, and one of the recipients is in Cassopolis. The Minority Coalition of Cass County will get 15-thousand dollars for "Sanctuary and Deliverance in Cass County", a program to involve several organizations. They'll get together to create an outdoor mural, a pamphlet, and a set of banners on the historic Kentucky Raid of 1847. That was when a group of slave owners from Kentucky came to Cass County, Michigan to retrieve their escaped slaves, resulting in a court case that affected the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. The mural will be painted by high school students and a local artist to depict resistance to the incident. It'll be 75 feet tall and on a two-story brick building in downtown Cassopolis. The Michigan Humanities Council is a private, non-profit organization that is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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