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FISCAL YEAR 2002-2003 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
FISCAL YEAR 2002-2003 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Dr. Ben Kobashigawa
Asian American Studies Department
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California 94l32
Project Title: Starting Over: Impact of WWII Internment of San Francisco Japantown and Japanese American Community
Starting Over: Impact of WWII Interment of San Francisco Japantown and the Japanese American Community is a research project about the process of return from the camps and postwar rebuilding of the Japanese American community.
Asian American Curriculum Project (AACP)
San Mateo, California
Project Title: Japanese American Books Restoration Project
AACP will be producing a descriptive catalog of the projects created with grant funding from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP). The catalog will be used to promote CCLPEP projects and the material.
Michael Uno
Santa Monica, California
Project Title: One Wish
One Wish is a documentary film/video project that will feature the efforts of students, teachers, and staff at Bakersfield High School (BHS) in recognizing, honoring, and awarding honorary diplomas to would-be BHS graduates from 1942-45 -- Americans of Japanese ancestry -- who did not receive theirs because they were interned in wartime Relocation Centers.
Addie Lanier
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Ruth Asawa Biography
The Ruth Asawa Biography will be a 100-page biography, with photographs from Asawa's private collection, of the artist and educator Ruth Asawa. This biography will provide school children aged 9 to 18, their teachers, and their parents insights into Japanese-American history in California. At present, there are few books about the Internment and accomplished Asian American women for school-age children.
Eiichi Edward Sakauye
San Jose, California
Project Title: A Reflection on the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp – A Photo Essay
This project has a two-fold purpose: first, for applicant to appear at the final conference to talk of his own life experience; second, to allow funding for his oral history to be documented and transcribed and have copies available at CSL for public use and information.
National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS)
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Locked In/Locked Out: Linking Japanese American Interment To Your Rights Today
Locked In/Locked Out – Linking Japanese American Interment To Your Rights Today is a statewide high school creative arts competition in the categories of essay, spoken work/poetry and visual art. Winners will be presented at the annual Day of Remembrance program and a traveling version is available to libraries, community center, and city Halls.
Lane Nishikawa
National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS)
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Only The Brave
This project will assist with film distribution and promotion of Only the Brave. This film follows a platoon of the 100th/442nd RCT, their lives and loved ones left behind, as they undertake one of their bloodiest missions; rescue the 1st Battalion, 141st Regiment of Texans, known as “The Lost Battalion”, cut off by the Germans.
Nihonmachi Little Friends
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Issei Women’s Legacy: the 1830 Sutter History Project
Nihonmachi Little Friends will be developing a brochure to educate the public on the historic significance of the former Japanese YWCA building located at 1830 Sutter Street in San Francisco’s Japantown. This outreach tool will bring out the issues faced by the Issei women as they struggled to establish their center and the recent community efforts to regain the property and its legacy for future generations.
Clyde Kusatsu
Sherman Oaks, California
Project Title: Kono & Chaplin: Living in Silence
Kono & Chaplin: Living in Silence will be a digital video of the story of Toraichi Kono who came to America and found the American dream by becoming the personal secretary and confidant to Charlie Chaplin only to have it all lost in an environment of fear, accusation and paranoia.
Duncan Williams
Department of East Asian Language and Literature
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, California
Project Title: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 Lessons from the Incarceration of Japanese American Buddhist Ministers
Camp Dharma: Buddhism and the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II will be a book manuscript which will use oral histories and new archival materials to examine the role of Buddhism in sustaining the spiritual lives of those incarcerated.
Pedro Loureiro
The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College
Claremont, California
Project Title: Bridge to the Rising Sun: Teachers of the US Navy Japanese Language School During World War II.
This project will be a video oral history of instructors
at the Navy Language School.
The instructors trained nearly one thousand Navy and
Marine intelligence officers the basics of the Japanese
language. In doing so, they made an extremely valuable
and as yet unrecognized contribution to America’s
victory in the Pacific War.
East West Players
Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Manzanar, Story of an American Family
East West Players will tour a forty minute version of MANZANAR: The Story of an American Family, to California schools and community centers. MANZANAR is an original musical by Russell McCoy and Dan Taguchi that follows the Shimada family from Thanksgiving 1941 through the tumultuous years of World War II.
Ibuki Hibi Lee
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist
Ibuki Hibi Lee,in collaboration with San Francisco State University professors, Mark Johnson and Jim Okutsu, will create a catalog book entitled Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist, of her mother Hisako Hibi, and her artwork in camp.
Marlene Tanioka
Japanese American Committee for Merced
Merced, California
Project Title: Japanese American Experience of Merced County 1904-1955
The Japanese American Committee For Merced will publish an exhibit catalog to document the Japanese American experience in Merced County during 1904-1955, and will be distributed the catalog at the Merced County Historical Museum.
Judith Ehrlich
Nick Black
The Italian American Film Project
Berkeley, California
Project Title: The Italian American Film Project
This project will produce, Una
Storia Segreta: The Secret Story, a film that will bring to light through
compelling first person recollections, and documents
of the time: diaries, letters, news clippings, propaganda,
newsreel, archival footage, poetry and prose the story
of the Italian colonies in California and their transformation
to communities under siege.
Soji Kashiwagi
Grateful Crane Ensemble
Pasadena, California
Project Title: The Camp Dance: The Music & The Memories
The Camp Dance: The Music and The Memories, a nostalgic mix of music from the 1940’s , storytelling and entertaining vignettes that shares the story of the internment camp dance, will tour 8 locations in CA.
Margaret Lowery
Ojai, California
Project Title: My Thirty-Nine Months at the Tulelake Segregation Center
My Thirty-Nine Months at the Tulelake Segregation Center will be a book focusing on the diary and recollections of Margaret Lowery’s her father, J Sheldon Lowery, who was the Evacuee Property Officer at the Tule Lake Concentration Camp.
Satsuki Ina
Hesono O Productions
Sacramento, California
Project Title: Silk Cocoon Project
From A Silk Cocoon will be a documentary focusing on the struggles of the Kibei family who renounced their citizenship in camp. Key elements of the story will draw parallels between the Japanese American experience and the current political and social circumstances faced by other cultural and religious groups today.
Edward Park
John Park
Asian Pacific American Studies Program
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Ozawa, Cartosian, and Executive Order 9066: Socio-Legal History of Japanese and Armenian American in Fresno County 1922-1942
This project will explore two US federal court cases that created different paths for Armenian Americans and Japanese Americans (Ozawa and Cartosian decisions) and elaborate on how those decisions have affected subsequent generations of Americans of Armenian and Japanese American descent.
Wendy Hanamura
Flower Village Productions
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Japanese American Film Preservation Project
This project will preserve the home movies of three individuals who filmed life inside the various concentration camps and distribute the tapes to libraries, museums, and historical societies.
Boku Kodama
Urban Voice Inc
Oakland, California
Project Title: The Digital Generation Looks at Internment Camps – A Family Perspective
This project will place a new generation’s creative perspective on the Japanese American Internment experience. Young men and women will produce mini movies onto DVDs by working with and interviewing their family elders who went through the camps. This family perspective will produce an intimate, new look at the Internment experience.
Neil Gotanda
Western State University College of Law
Fullerton, California
Project Title: Race and Law in the Japanese American Supreme Court Cases
This project will create a book about the legal cases concerning Japanese Americans and various other issues regarding civil liberties and national security.
David Iwataki
Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Project J, Justice
This project will create a hip-hop, rap, jazz and audio testimony CD to educate and inform high school students about the Japanese American experience during World War II which will be distributed at live performances and during Asian Pacific heritage month.
Ike Hatchimonji
Japanese American Citizens League, South Bay Chapter
(JACL)
Torrance, California
Project Title: South Bay Historical Project
The Japanese American Citizens League, South Bay Chapter, will preserve the rich oral histories of Japanese Americans from the Southern California South Bay region. These oral histories will promote a greater understanding of the cultural and ethnic diversity of the South Bay’s history as it relates to Japanese and Japanese American pre-WWII immigration/settlement, WWII experiences/internment, post-war resettlement and current contributions.
Tom Ikeda
Densho's Project
Seattle, Washington
Project Title: Stories Less Told: Women’s Perspective of the Incarnation Camps
This project will conduct three in-depth visual oral-history interviews focusing on Japanese American women’s lives. The completed interviews will be offered to educators, students, and the general public through Densho's online digital archive (www.densho.org).
Brian Minami
Gardena, California
Project Title: ManyMountains.org
Applicant will document the Issei writings during their incarceration in the Department of Justice Camps.
Amy Kato
Visual Communications
Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Stand up for Justice Curriculum Guide
This project will develop and publish a comprehensive study guide to the 30-minute narrative film, Stand Up For Justice. The film is based on the real life of Ralph Lazo, a Mexican American high school student who voluntarily accompanies his Japanese American teenage friends to Manzanar during World War II.
Warren Furutani
Gardena, California
Project Title: The First Manzanar Pilgrimage
This project will retrace the steps of the first Pilgrimage from the inception of the original idea to the actual visit itself. As many of the original attendees will be found and interviewed as to what they thought of the Pilgrimage then and how they feel about the Camp issue now. It is commonly acknowledged that this first Pilgrimage was one of the initial community activities that brought the whole WWII Camp experience back to life.
Michael Tora Speier
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Project Title: Broken Only at Sky
Broken Only at Sky is a family history project and public art piece by a third generation Nisei artist. This project will be housed in durable 5-gallon domes of handmade glass showing artifacts used and created during the incarceration.
David Metzler
Orangewood Productions, LLC
Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Home Sweet Home: Terminal Island Spirit Behind the Pictures
Orangewood Productions will complete a 60 minute documentary entitled, Home Sweet Home: Terminal Island Spirit Behind the Pictures, about the Japanese Americans who lived in the Southern Californian fishing village of Terminal Island.
Kerry Nakagawa
Nisei Baseball Research Project
Fresno, California
Project Title: Teaching about Internment through the Prism of Baseball
This project will create a curriculum project to accompany the already completed documentary about Japanese American baseball to be placed in California high school.
Barbara Takei
Judy Tachibana
Sacramento, California
Project Title: Completion of 2002 Renunciant Oral Histories
This project will provide for 40 hours of oral interviews
of Japanese Americans who renounced their citizenship,
including those who went to Japan. The transcriptions
will be made available to the research community.
Jo Ann Van Reenan
Oxnard Public Library
Oxnard, California
Project Title: Legacy of Internment: the Impact of Executive Order 9066 on Oxnard’s Japanese American Residents
The Oxnard Public Library will work with the Japanese American community residing in Oxnard to establish a collection or oral histories of Nisei residing in the Oxnard area.
Donna Graves
Berkeley, California
Project Title: Not at Home on the Home Front: Japanese Americans and Italian Americans in Richmond, California
Not at Home on the Home Front will document the lives and wartime experience of Japanese Americans and Italian American in Richmond, California - the location of the new Rosie the Riveter/ WWII Home Front National Historical Park
Gail Desler
Elk Grove Unified School District/UC Santa Barbara
Elk Grove, California
Project Title: When Justice Failed and History Happened Here: California Japanese American Interment
When Justice Failed and History Happened Here: California Japanese American Internment is a multimedia curriculum project for students and teachers to revisit and research a historical event in ways not covered in traditional history textbooks. Students and teachers in the Elk Grove and Santa Barbara school districts, in collaboration with the Center for Teaching for Social Justice at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will engage in educational activities – including interactive videoconferences - to develop and share classroom materials surrounding the incarceration of U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry during as a result of Executive Order 9066.
Michael Komai
Rafu Shimpo
Los Angeles, California
Project Title: Justice and Journalism – The Akira Komai Story
This project will produce a book entitled Justice and Journalism-The Akira Komai Story about the history of the Rafu Shimpo and other historical photos. The story will serve as a pivot point to also examine the history and current status of Nikkei as well as other ethnic publication across the country.
Charleen Renteria
Merced County Library
Merced, California
Project Title: The Immigrant Experience in California
This project will create a multi-media project at 2 Merced County Libraries in order to educate county residents about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and to spur discussions about the civil right struggles of other California immigrant and minorities.
Gary Kurutz
California State Library Foundation
Sacramento, California
Project Title: Extending the Circle – A Tribute to the Work of the CCLPEP
This project will plan and organize a final conference for the CCLPEP in August 2004.
KANSHA COLLABORATION
Harry Fukuhara
Skeets Oji
Military Intelligence Service
Walnut Creek, California
Marie Sugiyama
Japanese American Citizens League
Sonoma, California
Stephen McNeil
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Kanasha Project
This cooperative project under the administrative agency of the MISNORCAL with the Sonoma JACL and Stephen McNeil will work to preserve and collect stories of individuals who assisted Japanese Americans at the time of incarceration in saving their farms, homes and businesses.
ALL CAMPS PROJECT
Patricia Shiono
Tule Lake Committee, Inc
San Francisco, California
Don Estes
Ruth Okimoto
Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego
San Diego, California
Project Title: The All Camps Project
This will be a cooperative project to organize a nationwide network of individuals, organizations and other interested parties who are interested in preserving and remembering the concentration camp sites as well as sponsoring specific conferences.
Gary Kurtuz
California State Library Foundation
Sacramento, California
Project Title: Thoughts and reflection on the Japanese American Experience – Areas to Be Explored
This project will produce a book of all the CCLPEP grants as a reference tool.