Day of Remembrance | Webinar
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Duration:
44 Minutes
Audience:
Students, Lifelong Learners
Society & the Homefront
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During this webinar you will hear from Public Historian Hanako Wakatsuki-Chong. This presentation will focus on an overview of the Japanese American incarceration experience during WWII and the impacts that Executive Order 9066 had on American citizens. There will be a video that will be presented that takes viewers on a visual journey through historic images of the Japanese American community from immigration to incarceration.
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