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SPEAK OUT FOR JUSTICE: AUGUST 4, 1981 - PART 5 (LITTLE TOKYO TOWERS EVENING SESSION)

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On the evening of August 4, 1981, NCRR arranged a special evening session at the Little Tokyo Towers in Los Angeles, so that people who worked during the day could attend and participate in the CWRIC hearings. While the testimony footage for this session is incomplete and disjointed, the testifiers provide their heartbreaking experiences of personal loss, trauma, and discrimination.

Introduction by Kennedy Kabasares of PULLproject Ensemble, "Tales of Clamor". 


Evening Session Testifiers: 

Mary Iwasaki

Frank Endo

Martha Okamoto

Marge Taniwaki

Mo Nishida

Jane Nishio

Bill Shinkai

Ewan Yoshida

Mary Oda

Linda Morimoto

Mr. Tsuboi


To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Los Angeles hearings, Visual Communications and Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) presents SPEAK OUT FOR JUSTICE, the entire gavel-to-gavel tape coverage of the Los Angeles hearings, held August 4 - 6, 1981. We are releasing the full 26 hours of tapes, comprising over 150 testimonies from those impacted by Executive Order 9066, including special introductions by various community members.

  • Year
    1981
  • Runtime
    51 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States