Fred Okrand Interview Segment 5
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ddr-densho-122-15-5 (Legacy UID: denshovh-ofred-01-0005)
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Making the decision to join the American Civil Liberties Union
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.
00:02:43 — Segment 5 of 10
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Frank Abe Collection
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Courtesy of Frank Abe
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Densho
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INTERVIEW ID
ddr-densho-122-15
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INTERVIEW TITLE
Fred Okrand Interview
00:30:49 — 10 segments
DATE
August 22, 1995
LOCATION
Los Angeles, California
DESCRIPTION
White male. Born 1918. Former longtime legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Was an advocate for civil rights throughout his career, and worked on behalf of Japanese Americans during the World War II incarceration.
(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)
PRODUCTION
Frank Abe, interviewer; Frank Chin, interviewer
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PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Frank Abe Collection
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Frank Abe
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.