PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-8

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Short compilation of testimony from the Los Angeles hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians includes excerpts from twenty-eight people covering a range of topics including the arrest and internment of Issei , the travails of being incarcerated, the continuing impact on the incarceration, and calls for monetary reparations. A total of 157 people testified at the Los Angeles hearings for over twenty-three hours. Included in the film is footage of anti-redress activist Lillian Baker accosting Jim Kawaminami while he was testifying. The film was produced the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress and Visual Communications and edited by Steve Nagano.

See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Speak Out for Justice.

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-7.

00:14:11

CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

RIGHTS