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February 19, 2021 - 8:54 am
How does US government mandated incarceration of tens of thousands of families have long term impacts on communities?
Today is the Day of Remembrance. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible removal and incarceration of 110,000 people of Japanese descent. The Densho Project collects oral histories of those impacted by this act. Densho Project Founding Member, Tom Ikeda shares some takeaways of what he has witnessed.
This is an excerpt of a KBCS interview recorded in February of 2020.
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January 6, 2021 - 2:02 am
After the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese American communities in the United States faced growing animosity from their neighbors. Dr. Roy Ebihara was eight years old at the time. Dr. Ebihara recounts how terrifying it was living in New Mexico within the months after the US entered WWII. Tom Ikeda of the Seattle-based, Densho Project interviewed him.
Dr. Ebihara’s father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Dr. Ebihara served in the U.S. Army for two years immediately after the Korean War. He went on to practice Optometry in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently retired, and is active in the community.
project, the densho project, which some of our history tv viewers are familiar with, and jasmine alinder from the university of wisconsin. tom ikeda, what is the densho project that you ve been working on? so it s a community nonprofit based in seattle where we go out and collect the stories of japanese americans who were incarcerated during world war ii, so the 120,000 people who were in the camps. what we do are the survivors from that, we go out and do a videotaped interview and then share those interviews on the web. how many of these interviews have you done? we ve now done about 650, and we ll probably add another 50 or so this year. jasmine alinder, you re working on an oral history project, as well, the march on milwaukee civil history rights project. what can you tell us about that? so, the march on milwaukee several history rights project is a digital archive, it s an online archive of sources relating to mostly the struggle for open housing and school des
project that you ve been working on? so it s a community non-profit based in seattle where we go out and collect the stories of japanese americans who were incarcerated during world war ii so the 120,000 people who were in the camps what, we do are the survivors from that. we go out and do a videotaped interview and then share those interviews on the web. how many of these interviews have you done? we ve now done about 650, and we ll probably add another 50 or so this year. jasmine alinda, you re working on an oral history project as well, the march on milwaukee civil history rights project. what can you tell us about that? the march on milwaukee several history rights project is digital archive, online archive of sources relating to mostly the struggle for open housing and school desegregation in 1960s milwaukee. it includes oral histories but also includes text documents, photographs and video foodage, news footage from a local tv station at the time. what do yo
and, of course, there was not anybody who was going to talk him out of that. a recent trace fill review of your book has the headline, the americans who covorted with hitler. putting on your headline hat, would you send that back for rewarding? i m never going to say anything bad about a publication that writes a nice review. let s say they were in his presence. there were very many tense interviews between america and hitler, which i write about in hitler land, which are an interesting dynamic in and of themselves. but i ll tell you one but i think in saying this is something different, i understand what they re trying to do. cavorting is not quite the right word, but think of this scene. richard helms, a name that s familiar to a number of you because in the 1970s, he s the director of the c.i.a. in the 30s, he s a young reporter in germany and a wire service reporter. and during the nuremburg rallies, hitler liked to show off the whole thing to rallyists and they all