California Civil Liberties Public Education Program

Overview

This program’s central purpose is to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of civilians and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry during World War II will be remembered and that the causes and circumstance of these and other similar civil-liberty violations may be illuminated and understood. The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program is guided by California Education Code Sections 13000, 13015, 13020, 13025, and 13030.  This competitive grant program supports the creation and dissemination of educational and public awareness resources concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations. These include, but are not limited to, civil...