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ddr-densho-1024-100

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Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

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Japanese Americans break their silence to speak out on the pain, suffering, and loss experienced as a result of the issuance of Executive Order 9066. The first-hand accounts detail the enormous loss of property and business among many Japanese Americans after World War II.

Introduction by Jim Matsuoka, Co-Founder of Los Angeles Committee Coalition for Redress and Reparations, NCRR, and a member of the Manzanar Committee.

Part 2 Testifiers:
Frank Chuman,
Enosuke Amemiya,
Katsuichi Fujita,
Clarence Nishizu,
Veronica Ohara,
Akiyo DeLoyd,
Joyce S. Tamai,
Mary Oda,
Mary F. Kurihara,
Mabel T. Ota,
Katsuyo Oekawa,
Sally Tsuneishi

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Los Angeles hearings, Visual Communications and Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) presents SPEAK OUT FOR JUSTICE, the entire gavel-to-gavel tape coverage of the Los Angeles hearings, held August 4 - 6, 1981. We are releasing the full 26 hours of tapes, comprising over 150 testimonies from those impacted by Executive Order 9066, including special introductions by various community members. Learn more and watch the rest of the footage at vcmedia.org/speakout

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-100.

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Densho

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Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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