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ddr-densho-1024-111

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

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Testifiers continue to speak out on the economic loss and psychological impact of Japanese internment during World War II. Recollections of post-camp resettlement also demonstrate the discrimination and prejudice experienced by many Japanese Americans.

Introduction by June Hibino of Nikkei Progressives and NCRR.

Part 3 Testifiers:
Rei Osaki,
Peter K. Ota,
John J. Saito,
Linda Morimoto,
Vernon Yoshioka,
Esther Takei Nishio,
Frances C. Kitagawa,
Mary Fusako Odagiri,
Hideko Sasaki,
Henry Tamaki,
Hiro Uchiyama,
Michael Antonovich

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-1024-111.

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Densho

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Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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