Japanese American Confinement Sites grant
We are excited to announce that the ABHS grant proposal to the National Park Service has been selected for funding! This is the largest grant that ABHS has ever received, a grant of $119,153 from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) program of the National Park Service.
The project, Sharing Stories: Increasing Access to Records Documenting Japanese American Confinement and Northern Baptists’ Response will digitize records that document experiences of Japanese American Baptists and the work of Northern Baptists who assisted those who were forcibly removed from their communities and incarcerated. To accomplish this, ABHS will hire a project archivist to scan and catalog the relevant records and assist in creating both a digital exhibit and a traveling exhibit.
How can you participate? ABHS would like to include the stories of American Baptist families and congregations whose records are not already in ABHS archival collections. If you or someone you know would be willing to share letters, photos, or other items related to the Japanese American experience in WWII, please let us know. You do not have to give us your family keepsakes. We will be making several trips to the west coast for “Community Scanning Days” where we will set up equipment to scan personal collections. This grant is a 2-1 matching grant so we will also be looking to you to help us raise our portion ($60,000).
