Letters from the Camps: Voices of Dissent
This California Historical Society Public Program will be held at the Presidio Officer's Club, Moraga Hall, 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129
Using original letters from the internment camps of WWII, now preserved at California Historical Society, this interdisciplinary presentation focuses on Japanese Americans who spoke out during and after internment.
Contemporary descendants, writers, historians, activists, and performers will read from the letters and share their responses, including: Stan Yogi author of Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California and Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, John Crew of the ACLU, and Bonnie Akimoto, most recently in the play Beneath the Tall Tree at TheatreFirst in Berkeley. Additional readers to be confirmed soon.
In Partnership with the Presidio Trust and Friends of Topaz
Photo courtesy of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute