Korematsu Vs. U.S.: The Mass Incarceration Of Japanese-Americans During World War II To Be Subject Of Zoom Workshop Presentation On March 25
Reservations Required
Registrants to Receive Link to Documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
VINELAND, NJ –How could our government have allowed the mass detention and incarceration of millions of Japanese-Americans during World War II. To what extent did deception and lies play roles this? How could this be done to innocent Americans? Can something like this happen in our own times?
These issues will be among those explored in a Zoom presentation entitled “Korematsu vs. the United States: The Lies of Executive Order 9066” on Thursday, March 25, from 7 to 8:15 p.m., The facilitators will be Professor Lorraine “Lori” Bannai of the Seattle University of Law and attorney Hoyt Zia of Hawaii. The presentation is free and open to the public.
This presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session, is presented by South Jersey Holocaust Coalition and by New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, with additional funding from One Jewish Community—Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester & Salem Counties.
Japanese-Americans were those who suffered the most from Executive 9066—a United States presidential executive order signed and issued by President Franklin Roosevelt authorizing the Secretary of War to create military zones for the incarceration of Asian-Americans and European-Americans in U.S. concentration camps. Fred Korematsu was a civil rights activist who objected to the order and evaded internment, the charges for which were dropped four decades later.
Bannai is Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and a Professor of Lawyering Skills at Seattle University School of Law. She earned her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. While in practice, she was on the legal team that successfully challenged Korematsu’s conviction for violating military orders. Her recent writing includes a biography of Fred Korematsu, Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice.
Zia has served as a publisher and in numerous corporate positions for major companies in Hawaii and on the West Coast. He served as an appointee in the Clinton administration as Chief Counsel for Export Administration, Department of Commerce, in Washington, D.C. Zia has received numerous awards in recognition of his service for many community groups in the interest of social justice. The son of refugees from Shanghai, China, he was born and raised in New Jersey, graduated from Dartmouth College, served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and received his law degree from the UCLA School of Law.
The chairperson of Holocaust Coalition is Harry Furman, a former Social Studies teacher who pioneered the first New Jersey high school semester course on the Holocaust and genocide, The Conscience of Man.
Educators, students, and the public are invited to take part and, for professionals, 1.5 Professional Development (PD) hours will be granted by New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Registration (password protected) is required. Please register by visiting the Coalition website—www.holocaustcoalition.com. Registrants will receive a link to the award-winning documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066.
Voluntary donations to Jewish Federation to help support the work of Holocaust Coalition may be sent to 1015 E. Park Ave., Vineland, NJ 08360.
For more information on this and all South Jersey Holocaust Coalition events and activities, please visit the Coalition’s website at www.holocaustcoalition.com. Please see their Facebook page at “South Jersey Holocaust Coalition” for interesting articles and information about the Holocaust and related subjects. You may also email holocaustcoalition@gmail.com.
