Funding opportunity goals text:the japanese american confinement sites (jacs) grant program (public law 109-441, 120 stat. 3288) provides financial assistance to organizations and entities working…

Funding opportunity goals text:the japanese american confinement sites (jacs) grant program (public law 109-441, 120 stat. 3288) provides financial assistance to organizations and entities working to preserve historic japanese american confinement sites and their history, including: private nonprofit organizations; educational institutions; state, local, and tribal governments; and other public entities, for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. Confinement sites where japanese americans were detained during world war II. Purpose of award (summary of the goals and objectives of the project):overarching goal. To preserve and interpret the history of manzanar national historic site and the manzanar committee.objectives. Create an online archive, the manzanar remembrance collection, documenting thehistory of manzanar pilgrimages and efforts to establish the manzanar national historic site.summary of project specific activities:manzanar committee will partner with densho to create an online archive of documents, photographs, and video footage focused on how manzanar has been remembered over the years, and how IT was established as the manzanar national historic site. Archival material held by the manzanar committee and the SUE kunitomi embrey archives at the western archeological and conservation center will be a focus. Additional collecting will target community sources, particularly japanese american newspapers; and fifteen life-history interviews will be conducted.performance goals including milestones and expected outcomes:an estimated 1500 objects will be professionally scanned and processed and fifteen visual life history interviews will be collected. Objects and interviews will be shared on densho's digital repository and manzanar committee's website. Beneficiaries:the public educators NPS jacs sites organizations preserving jacs sites and history