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…

The National Japanese American Historical Society Inc. (NJAHS) has been awarded a $119,484 project grant from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will fund a project to catalog and digitize previously unseen photographs, documents, and ephemera from NJAHS' collections related to the ten War Relocation Authority (WRA) incarceration sites and several Department of Justice camps where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The newly digitized materials will be made publicly available through the University of San Francisco's Japanese American Confinement Sites website. The project aims to preserve and interpret the history and impacts of Japanese American incarceration during the war.

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:overarching goal. To preserve and interpret the history and impacts of japanese american incarceration during world war II. Objectives. To complete planning for construction of visitor center to share the history of japanese americans during world war II. Summary of project specific activities: the national japanese american historical society, INC. (NJAHS) will collaborate with university of SAN francisco (USF) to catalog and digitize never before seen photographs, documents, and ephemera that will be made publicly available through USFS japanese american confinement sites website. The newly discovered items include original and rare artifacts and documentation from the NJAHS collections related to the ten WRA incarceration sites (amache, gila river, heart mountain, jerome, manzanar, minidoka, poston, rohwer, topaz, and tule lake) and several department of justice camps (santa FE, NM missoula, MT and crystal city, TX).performance goals including milestones and expected outcomes:digitize collections upgrade pastperfect collections management system develop finding aids. Beneficiaries:the public educators NPS JACS sites organizations preserving JACS sites and history