Redress Reckoning and Recover Exhibit at B640

The National Japanese American Historical Society is happy to announce the opening of our oral history booth at Building 640, along with excerpts from our Redress, Reckoning, and Recovery project.

Made possible by funding from the National Writing Project’s “Building A More Perfect Union” recovery grant, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Japanese American Historical Society and Biosphere Productions and Claudia Katayanagi interviewed Nikkei Civil and Human Rights activists from those who campaigned for redress for Japanese American incarceration to those on the front lines of fighting for immigrant rights, lgbtq rights, and to build a more perfect union.

The Oral History Booth invites visitors to engage with the ongoing struggle for racial and social

justice.  To reflect on their struggles and their community’s struggles in achieving the American Dream.  As well as the work they have done in their community to move forward the struggle for a more just America.  Though the power individual storytelling to illuminate our shared humanity and history the oral history booth invites all of us to reflect on the injustices of the past and now and how we can through shared effort and civic engagement change the world for the better.