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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-110

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Mental health professionals provide insight into the detrimental effects of camp trauma and the impact on psychological and physical health. Japanese Americans speak out on the extreme racial prejudice and discrimination experienced in post-camp life.

Introduction by Karen Umemoto, Executive Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Michael Nishimura, member of Nikkei Progressives.

Part 2 Testifiers:
Amy Iwasaki Mass,
Paul Chikahisa,
Bebe Toshiko Reschke,
Morry Tolmach,
Edward Terao Himeno,
Ford Hajime Kuramoto,
James T. Fujii,
Michiko Machida,
Chiyoko Sasaki

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-1024-110.

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Densho

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Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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