Mural for incarcerated Japanese Americans during WWII vandalized in Seattle
Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. Jeff Liang, Interim Executive Director with Chinatown International District's Business Improvement Area (CID-BIA) says he was alerted of the defacement on Monday in Nihonmachi Alley,
Remembering Mitsuye Endo’s sacrifice to end Japanese American incarceration
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition of a quiet hero whose name should echo in American history. Endo’s courage in challenging the U.
'Behind Barbed Wire' to highlight Japanese American WWII experience
The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande will offer a special presentation Jan. 31 by historian Jim Gregory, composer Deon Nielsen Price, and conductor Brian Alhadeff highlighting
Japanese-American WW2 mural vandalized with Bible verses in Seattle
Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.
Seattle art exhibit on Japanese American history vandalized
Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Beloved public art exhibit featuring Japanese American history discovered defaced on MLK Jr. Day
Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the ...
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Japanese American Internment
examine events and determine the factors which led to Japanese American internment become aware of what took place during the Japanese American internment experience discuss the impact of the ...
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Why a Japanese American lawyer wants Reparations for Black Californians
When Donald Tamaki got a call from the Governor’s Office asking him to interview for a position on California’s Reparations ...
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Japanese American Incarceration Era Collection
The newly created Army agency, the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), first handled the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Afterwards, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) was the ...
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Exhibit on internment of Japanese Americans explores the trauma, tenacity in a dark moment in U.S. history
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Forty years after World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a study to examine the impact of the internment of Japanese Americans. Public hearings included ...
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Oregon Swears In First Japanese American Lawmaker
Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...
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AAPI History - Key Events
Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma. At that point, 75,000 Soldiers became prisoners of war: about 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos. What followed was one of the worst ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in WWII
To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019. This community nonprofit project was originally incubated at ...