The National Park Service has awarded a $50,000 grant to D.C. for a study about women’s history and suffrage in the District.

“On the Centennial of American women obtaining the right to vote, this study will identify the important themes related to women’s history and the Suffrage movement,” said Jennifer Steingasser, D.C.’s Deputy Director of Development Review and Historic Preservation in a press release. “As the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. served as the backdrop for many historic events as women across the nation struggled for equal rights.”

The non-profit D.C. Preservation League will manage the grant for the city. Executive Director Rebecca Miller tells DCist in an email that the grant and the study will “help piece together the stories of women suffragists in the District who are currently underrepresented on the DC Inventory of Historic Sites and National Register of Historic Places. ”

The plan at the end of the project, writes Miller, is to amend two existing landmark nominations to include relevant information related to women’s suffrage and to nominate two new D.C. sites for landmarking.

This year marks the 100th anniversary since the passage of the 19th Amendment, which prohibited the government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. In August, a number of D.C. memorials and monuments were lit up in purple and gold in honor of the suffrage movement.

Officials at the D.C. Office of Planning provided to DCist excerpts of the grant application.

In it, it says that “the fight for women’s equality has roots all across America, but many of its most important moments have taken place in Washington, DC.”

It names a number of locations that are historically significant to women’s history and the suffrage movement, including the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, Mary Church Terrell’s house on T Street in Northwest, and the Mary Ann Shad Cary House near U Street.

It points out that a number of D.C. landmarks have a connection to the women’s suffrage movement, though their nominations and inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places “underplay” the link.

“The national suffrage movement’s critical years of activism in DC are also underrepresented on the National Register,” reads the grant application.

D.C.’s grant is part of a larger NPS program that is looking to highlight, study, and nominate underrepresented historical locations for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

This is the third grant provided to the city under this program. One led to the last year’s release of a report aiming to broaden the historical understanding of the District’s LGBTQ communities. Another that will explore the history of D.C.’s Chinese and Korean populations is still underway.

In all, the National Park Service granted $750,000 in support of 18 projects, including documenting slavery in Massachusetts and tribal sites in California and Washington.

The story was updated to include comments from the D.C. Preservation League and grant information provided by the D.C. Office of Planning.