The wartime injunction, signed in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, authorized the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.
This year, during the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, Nakamura and other Japanese Americans are telling their stories of internment as a painful reminder of what can happen in a climate of fear and racism — something they say the country has entered into again.
“The parallels are just incredible,” said Ken Inouye, a Huntington Beach resident and past national president of the Japanese American Citizens League.
Sylvia Kim, regional director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Orange County, one of the groups hosting the April 20 event, said Japanese Americans have been at the forefront of resisting bigotry today.
The panel is being hosted by Asian Americans Advancing Justice-OC, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Japanese American Citizens League.
FEATURING:
- Ken Inouye, Former National President of JACL
- Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of CAIR-LA
- Laboni Hoq, Litigation Director for AAAJ-LA
- A Japanese American 'Nisei' couple who was interned during WWII
Cost: $35
To register, please click here.
Information: Katelyn Ogawa at kogawa@advancingjustice-oc.org.
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