We would like to thank the National Park Service for granting the Japanese American Confinement Sites award to Konrad Aderer for his next film "They Took My Father Too."
🌳 The National Park Service announced $3,273,639 in Japanese American Confinement Sites grants to support nine preservation, restoration, and education projects that help tell the story of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, incarcerated by the U.S. government following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942.
In partnership with 📽️ Third World Newsreel, Aderer will bring to life a Japanese American narrative of forced displacement and family separation, focusing on the lesser-known Tuna Canyon Detention Station in California. The film, adapted for educational purposes, aims to engage students with historical and current civil liberties issues.
📜 Following the Attacks on Pearl Harbor, the US government and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This order resulted in more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, in which two thirds of them are US citizens, to be incarcerated without reason during WW2. The National Park Service (NPS) offers grants to projects that tell the story of injustice that Japanese Americans experienced during the war. The program will also help teach future generations to understand more of our history, including the dark truth, in order to make our future better than before.
Click the link to learn more:
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/national-park-service-awards-more-than-$3-2-million-in-grants-to-preserve-and-interpret-world-war-ii-japanese-american-incarceration-sites.htm