Gordon Hirabayashi was born #OTD in 1918. During WWII, rather than register for 'relocation' he turned himself in to the FBI to create a test case of the government's right to incarcerate Japanese Americans without due process of law. youtube.com/watch?v=Do-DRP…

#fbf At the Korematsu Institute, we believe the fight for justice, racial equity, & human rights begins with education. All of our stories are important. Watch this @denshoproject #HiHoKids video where kids meet a survivor of the JA Incarceration: tinyurl.com/5xy8kjyz

Join Densho’s Executive Director Naomi Kawamura for an informal virtual town hall from 12-1:15 PM PST on May 2nd! Naomi will report back on her recent travels to Tokyo & Osaka as part of the US-Japan Council’s 2024 Japanese American Leadership Delegation. densho.org/events/virtual…

Satsuki Ina has long served as a healing storyteller and therapist for the community of Japanese American incarcerees and descendants. Her own family story is woven through with resilience and courage.

Join us on May 11 @ 2pm for a book talk by Dr. Ina about her new memoir, “The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest,” in which she recovers the story of how her parents resisted their incarceration in U.S. concentration camps. densho.org/events/poet-an…

Satsuki Ina describes the moment she learned about her parents' painful decision to renounce their U.S. citizenship from within the Tule Lake concentration camp, and the ripple effect of their traumatic wartime experience on her own life. youtube.com/watch?v=UVYan5…

Mitsuye Endo’s 1944 Supreme Court case played a significant role in the closing of the camps. Sign on to the petition to request that President Biden posthumously award Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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