Project Grant PW28501122

The University of Hawaii at Manoa will digitize 890 motion picture film reels and videotapes from its Henry Kuualoha Moving Image Archive of Hawaii collections in order to provide access to historical materials documenting Hawaii's path to statehood and its varying impacts on native Hawaiian and Japanese American populations from the 1920s to 2000s. Funded by a $1,050,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, the university will preserve and make intellectually accessible primary resources from eight collections spanning this period, including those from Juniroa Productions, the 442nd Legacy Center, Katsugo Miho, Samuel P. King, the Biographical Research Center, Making Waves Films, the Hawaii People's Fund, and the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. By digitizing these materials, the university aims to shed light on Hawaii's road to statehood and the consequences of its admission into the Union through the stories and experiences captured on film.