And on thursday we will be at books smith bookstore in berkeley california historian and activist rebecca talks about the feminist movement. That is a look at some of the programs we will cover this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And welcome to tucson and the university of arizona campus. This is the tucson festival of books. Booktv is live today from the gallagher theater and for the next 7 and a half hours you will hear from authors and have a chance to talk with them as well. Heres our lineup for today. In just a few minutes the first author panel will begin. It is on japanese internment during world war ii. Followed by your opportunity to talk with historian Richard Reeves. After that a panel on lgbt q rights and a calling program with panelists lillian vitamin and you will hear from authors later today discussing slavery in america, the history of women in sciences and philanthropy. And several other
Over time harry told me. For four years we talked over lunch when we come to japan from his home in california. And finally one day i turned to him and said harry, this is an important story on so many levels. It is an important story for your family. For your generation, for the japaneseamerican community, for usjapan relations. And i dont know if im the right person but if you would consider having a book written i would be happy to try. Only kentucky find someone. But i think you should seriously consider leaving a written record. And by this point i thought that i could document it and he turned to me and he arranged for me to meet his brothers the next day. His brothers who had been conscripted into the Japanese Imperial army. Harry became one of the first japaneseamerican colonels in the us army. He became distinguished member of the military intelligence hall of fame. The 500 military intelligence brigade which is the Pacific Vanguard for intelligence is located in hawaii on awa
More than 100,000 men, women, and children, all of japanese ancestry, removed from their homes and the Pacific Coast states to wartime communities established in outoftheway places. Theyre either accu wish and imply individualist loyalty but was ordered to reduce a military hazard at a time when danger of invasion was great. Two thirds of the evacuees are american citizens by right of birth. The others are there japanese born parents and grandparents. They are not under suspicion, not prisoners, not in turnees. They are merely displaced people. The unwanted casualties of war. The time spring and summer of 1942. Replace 10 different Relocation Centers in unsettled parts of california, arizona, utah, idaho, wyoming, colorado, and arkansas. I was born in a small town south of sacramento called floren. My dad had a farm. We raised grapes and strawberries. I was there until age 5, when world war ii started with the bombing of pearl harbor. Sunday, my dad, who had been home, listening to the
Capital. West,are in the wild domes and columns in a similar look and style. It was the idea that we were part of this particular government right now. You see a lot of symbolism in the room. Later, here about the internment of japanese americans during world war ii. I remember the day we had to leave. We did not know how long we were going to go. We didnt know where we would be sent. We just knew that we had to leave our farm. We begin the hour with a visit to the Sacramento History Center and a look at the items in the gold rush collection. The concept of where sacramento is is quite ludicrous in many ways. Its lowlying marshland. Probably the worst place to put a city. But the concept that it was more important for the monetary gain than it was for the longterm life of the city. What that caused in the end and what a lot of these things helped us document was how the city had to transform and change for self. It is a story of disasters. You can ask yourself that question, what i hav
The japanese born parents. They are not prisoners or internees. They are merely dislocated people. The unwanted casualties of war. The time, spring and summer of 1942. The place, 10 different Relocation Centers and unsettled parts of california, arizona, utah, idaho, wyoming, colorado, arkansas. I was born in a small town south of sacramento. Farm. Had a we raised grapes and strawberries. When there until age five world war ii started. Sunday, my dad, who had been home listening to the radio , heard about the bombing. He burst into the Methodist Church where my mother was playing the pnm and the piano and interrupted the service, announcing japan had bombed pearl harbor and all of the sudden in that one instant, our lives changed. We didnt know what was going to happen to us. At first, there was not that much antiasians sentiment in the newspapers. Things were quiet. Le, the whi newspapers started publishing articles about the perils of having the japanese on the west coast. Who hadthe