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Speaker Sam Mihara recounts his wartime experiences, talks about why Executive Order 9066 camps were created and lessons learned, and sheds light on civil rights violations endured by the Japanese American community World War II. For adults.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, a 1942 wartime order authorizing the forcible incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans. Sam Mihara was 9 years old when his family was uprooted from their community in San Francisco and forced to live in a desolate Wyoming prison camp. Join us as Sam recounts his wartime experiences, talks about why the camps were created and lessons learned, and sheds light on civil rights violations endured by the Japanese American community during World War II. For adults.
This is a virtual event hosted on Webex. This event will not be recorded.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Conversations | History, Society, & Culture |
The Asian Pacific Resource Center (APRC) established in 1979, is a special collection of LA County Library located in the Rosemead Library. Its scope encompasses both academic materials as well as film, music, novels, magazines, and newspapers. The emphasis of the collection is on the Asian American / Pacific Islander American experience, with core holdings on the history, art, and culture - of China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Hawaii, and American Samoa. The center has over 100 titles on microfilm of historical Asian immigrant newspapers published in the United States. Also on microfilm, the center has newspapers and documents from the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The Asian Pacific Resource Center is located in Rosemead Library.
