The Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes received a grant for $6,800 from the Kansas Arts Commission.! The grant will be used to honor three unsung heroes from the Japanese Internment Camps during WWII. Those unsung heroes are Mitsuye Endo, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, and Minoru Yasui. The grant will allow for a historian presentation about the camps, a community book read of George Takei’s “The Called Us Enemy,” a public showing of the movie “Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp,” and a performance by the St. Louis Osuwa Taiko Japanese Drummers in the Lowell Milken Park at the Center.

Kansas Arts Commission: The Kansas Arts Commission (KAC) is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and expanding Kansas’ creative industries and enriching communities through arts and culture.

About the Lowell Milken Center: The Lowell Milken Center is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) that works with students and educators within a range of diverse academic disciplines, to develop projects focused on unsung heroes. Our mission is to share those projects and the stories of these unsung heroes with our community through our museum at the Lowell Milken Center and through special cultural events.