KENT: Kent State has won a $300,000 federal grant to support the development of a May 4 museum.The award from the National Endowment for the Humanities supports the planned effort to raise $1.5 million to create a permanent exhibit in Taylor Hall about student anti-war demonstrations in May 1970.The Kent State award is among 269 nationwide totaling $40 million that the NEH is distributing in the latest round of funding. The five other Ohio colleges and nonprofits to receive awards were the University of Dayton, Lourdes College, Cleveland State, Ohio State and the Ohio Historical Society. The Kent State museum aims to help the public understand what happened when student protesters clashed with 28 armed members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. The deaths of four students and wounding of nine spread to protests at other universities nationwide and a protest march on Washington, D.C. “We’re very pleased that the NEH awarded this grant to Kent State. It’s a great indicator of the importance of May 4 in history,” spokeswoman Emily Vincent said.She said the campaign to raise money for the museum had not started.KSU faculty members who co-authored the grant application, Laura Davis of the Kent campus and Carole Barbato of the East Liverpool campus, could not be reached for comment.The university hired Gallagher & Associates of Bethesda, Md., two years ago for $75,000 to design a walking tour of the site and to develop proposals for a visitors center in the former student newspaper office in Taylor Hall, the closest academic building to the protest scene. Last year, the National Register of Historic Places recognized the 17-acre site of the student demonstrations around Taylor Hall as a national historic site.Carol Biliczky can be reached at cbiliczky@thebeaconjournal.com or 330-996-3729.