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#fbf More than 125,000 Japanese Americans were forced into the government’s incarceration camps during World War II. At the Korematsu Institute, we believe the fight for justice, racial equity, and human rights begins with education. All of our stories are important. As our our histories. Watch this Densho #HiHoKids video where kids meet a survivor of the Japanese American Incarceration and learn the importance of sharing our histories. Watch here:
"At a time when we see women’s rights and civil rights being rolled back, we need to stand up for women. The time to stand up for Misuye giving voice to thousands of innocent Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II is now."
Read Dr. Karen Korematsu's Open Letter supporting the nomination of a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi on the Korematsu Institute website here: tinyurl.com/mt28epca
“The American story is most fully told when we incorporate the voices of every community that makes up our great nation. As we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I’m glad we can come together to explore cultural storytelling and its effect on how we understand our nation's history.” - Dr. Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States
In celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the National Archives presents “Perspectives on History: AAPI Voices in the American Story” featuring Dr. Karen Korematsu, Gisela Perez Kusakawa, and Stewart Kwoh with author and journalist Richard Lui as moderator. Learn more about how to watch the program here: tinyurl.com/353ry9er
“You can’t tell the story of this country without Asian American history. It would be like reading a book with chapters missing from it...nobody likes having an incomplete book.” - Kabby Hong, Wisconsin’s 2022 Teacher of the Year
At the Korematsu Institute, we believe the fight for justice, racial equity, and human rights begins with education. All of our stories are important. As are our histories. Students and teachers are championing a new Wisconsin law requiring schools to teach Asian and Hmong American history in K-12 public schools. The decision allows all students as well as those from Hmong and Asian American communities to learn the integrated role the communities played in the state and country's history.
Students champion new law requiring schools teach Asian, Hmong American history
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“It’s gonna be really good for kids starting at such a young age to, in a public space with their classmates, be seen and be represented and have a space to feel like they belong,” said TASA co-...
"For some incarcerees, like former chef, James Hatsuaki Wakasa, his blood was spilled, and his life ended when he was shot for walking his dog too close to the border fence at Topaz. This could have been my father or any other inhabitants of the camps. James Hatsuaki Wakasa did not get to go home. His murder is starkly depicted in the artwork in this book. This is real history. Our history. And more importantly, this is an important part of our story we should ALL know. " - Dr. Karen Korematsu
This week marked the anniversary of the death of James Hatsuaki Wakasa at Topaz Concentration Camp in 1943. The Korematsu Institute's Founder and President was proud to contribute a foreword to the book, "Show Me the Way to Go Home", a stunning and heartbreaking "immersive, visual journey through the incarceration camps that held 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2" and share his story. #japaneseamericanhistory #japaneseamericanincarceration #historymatters
'His life mattered': Descendants of Topaz inmates remember man killed 80 years ago
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Descendants of Topaz War Relocation Center inmates are remembering the life of a man who was killed 80 years ago this month with ceremonies Friday and Saturday.
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