but because of circumstances such as the loss of a spouse or other close friends.

and gentrification to consider how the past is relevant to present day issues of identity and preservation.Our dedicated team of museum professionals and volunteers as well as community leaders and organizations create an impactful and meaningful program that advances the teaching and scholarship of Japanese American history and contextualizes it against the backdrop of civil rights.

residential workshops for 72 secondary school teachers.the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.focusing on Japanese American history and community history through Los Angeles Little Tokyo neighborhood.

We are proud to offer this outstanding opportunity to educators from across the country once again.JANM has been the recipient of this grant for the third year in a row.

The project will support two five-day.

000 Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators Grant for the project Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations 2025.Salazar is a social studies teacher who has been teaching and coaching for the last 42 years.

Sachiko Tanabe (13) and Aiko Oyakawa (11) drowned in 1944.titled Americas Last WWII Concentration Camp and funded by the Tomoye Henri Takahashi Charitable Foundation.

Struck by the similarities in civil rights abuses faced by both communities.the naming of a street for the two young Peruvian Japanese girls who drowned in the pool in 1945.