Without Due Process - Japanese American Internment

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Adults
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  • Registration will close on November 5, 2025 @ 6:30pm.

Program Description

How could more than 120,000 Japanese Americans have been incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II without due process? Like the 120,000 other Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast during the outbreak of World War II, the close-knit Okamoto family was sent to concentration camps for over three years without due process simply because they resembled the foreign enemy who attacked Pearl Harbor. In this account of the Japanese American internment, members of the Okamoto family share a dark chapter in their lives so that others will learn the lessons of history and never forget the devastation prejudice has caused these and many other American citizens. Their story serves as a warning: history can repeat itself if its lessons are forgotten.

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