Join us this #MemorialDay weekend for a screening of Under The Blood Red Sun.
Where: @PearlHarborNPS
When: May 24th at 5:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Watch the trailer: https://t.co/zyb1Eo8RWQ
📸: Red Sun Productions
#UndertheBloodRedSun#PearlHarbor#WWII
When Japanese Americans started returning to the West Coast 80 years ago, many of them found that their former lives were gone forever. Thanks, @pattmlatimes@latimes
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Gratified that the @latimes announced today it would drop use of "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent during WWII. My story about my family's wartime experiences explains why this matters. https://t.co/cliSNrnKMu @aaja@AAJAla
The NBC News correspondent paid a moving visit to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, exploring her personal connection to a shameful chapter in U.S. history. https://t.co/HejXOEKCI0
Today, January 30, marks the 40th anniversary of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, honoring the activist who fought the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and dedicated his life to defending civil rights. [1/3]
Bill preserving WWII Japanese Am incarceration camps signed by Biden. Among the camps to be preserved is the Honouliuli incarceration camp in Hawaii.
https://t.co/rnlrqdVRFO
Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the “enemy.” At age 4, I was /1
“THE AFTERMATH OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS”
Hon. A. Wallace Tashima writes for “Western Legal History” (pp.205-214) | @9thJCHS https://t.co/IFliXC12zi
"Children’s books about Japanese American incarceration are burdened with the obligation of also being history books. The history has experienced a strained, frustrated life. "
Insightful, heartfelt prose written by the talented Brandon Shimoda.
https://t.co/2vbxujjEe3