The National Park Service will grant more than $3.1 million to help preserve and enhance civil rights sites in Alabama.

The series of grants will be awarded to five organizations around the state:

• The City of Anniston will receive $74,800 for story mapping and the formalization of the Anniston Civil Rights Trail
• The Historic Bethel Baptist Church Community Restoration Fund in Birmingham will receive $750,000 for historic preservation
• St. Paul United Methodist Church in Birmingham will receive $750,000 for preservation and restoration
• Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery will receive $750,000 for repair and rehabilitation
• The Alabama Historical Commission in Montgomery will receive $75,000 for the Freedom Rides Museum Vintage Greyhound Bus Virtual Reality Experience and $750,000 for the rehabilitation of the second floor of the Moore Building, the structure across from the historic Greyhound Bus Station.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell’s office announced the grants in a press release late last week.

“As the Representative of Alabama’s Civil Rights district, I take seriously my responsibility to ensure that we preserve the living legacy of the Civil Rights Movement,” Sewell said in the release. “Each year, I’m proud to lead the effort in Congress to increase funding for the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Grant Program to ensure that America’s civil rights history lives on. This $3.1 million is a big win for the State of Alabama and will help ensure that faces and places of the Movement are never forgotten!”

The African American Civil Rights Grant Program helps document, interpret, and preserve sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens. The grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) and administered by the NPS. The grants fund a range of planning, development, and research projects for historic sites, including documentation, interpretation, education, architectural services, and repairs.

Established in 1977 the HPF has provided more than $2 billion in historic preservation grants to states, Native American tribes, local governments, and nonprofit organizations.

This summer, the Historic Preservation Fund plans to make $24 million available for African American Civil Rights grants, according to the release from Rep. Sewell’s office.

“The National Park Service is proud to award this grant funding to our state and local government, and nonprofit partners to help them recognize places and stories related to the African American experience,” Director Chuck Sams said in the same release. “Since 2016, the African American Civil Rights program has provided over $100 million to document, protect, and celebrate the places, people and stories of one of the greatest struggles in American history.”