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California State Library announces California Civil Liberties Public Education program grant recipients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2008

CONTACT:
Sarah Dalton
California State Library
916/654-1483

California State Library announces California Civil Liberties Public Education program grant recipients

SACRAMENTO - State Librarian of California Susan Hildreth has announced the 2007-2008 grant recipients for the California State Library’s California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP). The announcement came following the CCLPEP advisory committee meeting in May.

CCLPEP received 66 grant proposals totaling almost $2.8 million, with $500,000 available for distribution. Thirty proposals were selected for grant awards. Winning grant projects include a study that will provide recommendations to the California Department of Education Curriculum Commission for their upcoming history-social science curriculum revision, as well as documentary films, an original musical recording, books and research, web sites, oral histories, art and photography exhibits, and a variety of educational projects.

CCLPEP is the outgrowth of the 1998 California Civil Liberties Public Education Act, an initiative Assembly Member Mike Honda sponsored. The purpose of the Act was to provide funding for public education activities and educational materials surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry, with the intent being to illuminate and create understanding of the causes and circumstances of the internment and similar events. Susan Hildreth said, “Each year’s CCLPEP projects have fulfilled the original purpose of the Act very well, and the 2007-2008 projects add much to that body of work.”

The FY 2007-2008 CCLPEP grantees and their projects are:

Grant Recipient	Project Title
Warren Kenji Berkey	Gambaru
California Japanese American Community Leadership Council	Japantowns Website
California State University Fresno Foundation	HML-FCL Japanese American Project (Website)
California State University Sacramento	Report:  Cross-generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment
Central California District Council of the Japanese American Citizens League	Pinedale Memorial Storyboards
Go For Broke National Education Center	Teen Leadership Development Program
Margaret Ikeda	Oral Histories for Arroyo Grande Japanese American Cultural Center
J-Town Pictures	Music Man of Manzanar (HD Formatting)
Japanese American Citizens League - Pacific Southwest District	Bridging Communities for Civil Rights
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center	Little Tokyo Open House
Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego	Internment Art Exhibit
Japanese American National Museum	America's Promise
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California	Nikkei Family Legacy Project
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California	Screening of The Wat Misaka Story
Japanese Institute of Sawtelle	The Evolution of Sawtelle
Cathleen Kiyomi Kozen	Research Project on the Redress Movement
Greg Marutani	Internment Artifact Photos
Claire Mix	Ruth Mix Documentary
Tadashi Nakamura	We Are the Children
National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement	MEMSA 2007-08 Project
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress	Stand Up for Justice Curriculum Packets
Sevenju Miki Pepper	Baachan's House
Regents of the University of California	Web Access to Translated Legal Documents Concerning the Japanese American Internment
Riverside Community College District	Mine Okubo Collection
San Joaquin County Office of Education	Social Science Curriculum
Scott Shimamoto	Japanese American Experience Song (CD)
Topaz Museum	Oral Interviews from Topaz Internees
Watsonville-Santa Cruz Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League	Oral Histories
Sharon Yamato	Gentle Giants - Michi Nishiura Weglyn Documentary
Janet Yano	Internment Board Game Prototype

 

For more information about the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, please contact Linda Springer or Christopher Berger at (916) 653-5217 or cclpep@library.ca.gov.