NCRR Website Introduces the Day of Remembrance Archives
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The Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) in Los Angeles is pleased to introduce the Day of Remembrance Archives, a new exhibit located on NCRR’s website, http://www.ncrr-la.org/. NCRR invites the community and interested individuals to view the retrospective of NCRR-sponsored Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) programs.Each February, from 1981 to the present, NCRR has hosted the DOR in Los Angeles to acknowledge President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s February 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066. The order allowed the military to forcibly remove and incarcerate over 110,000 men, women and children in America’s concentration camps during World War II.
The DOR program has traditionally honored the Issei and the Nisei who suffered the dire effects of the unconstitutional and unwarranted incarceration. During the historic campaign for redress and reparations the DORs rallied the community to participate and also to support other groups who suffered from similar injustices.
Keynote speakers have included Congressional representatives Robert Matsui, Norman Mineta, Alan Cranston, and Mervyn Dymally. The social justice issues of Arab and Muslim Americans and the forced repatriation of Mexican Americans in the 1930’s have been presented in recent DOR programs. The Campaign for Justice for Japanese Latin Americans continues to be a focus of the Day of Remembrance.
The DOR program has been co-sponsored by different organizations including the Japanese American Citizens League Pacific Southwest District; the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center; the Japanese American National Museum; and other community organizations. The previous 26 DOR posters are the portals to each year’s program. By clicking on the date below each poster, the viewer can find the program summary, photos, speeches, and news articles about each event.
Miles Hamada, graphic artist and web designer, worked with NCRR to develop the DOR archive site. The Archive project is funded by a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP). For more information contact NCRR at ncrrla@yahoo.com.
Please note that the narrator states that the last internees were released during February 1948; be advised that the last known German American internee was not released from Ellis Island until August 1948..