he was the oldest of four children.

This session will also explore prisoner and migrant solidarity rights work happening across the country and in Texas.With the current administrations attempts to whitewash our countrys history.

Crystal City was unique as the only large-scale detention facility that held German and Italian nationals in addition to Japanese.Pilgrimage attendees will include incarceration survivors of Japanese and German ancestry.and a visit to the site of the former prison camp in Crystal City on Saturday.

Crystal City survivors will share their personal stories of hardships experienced as a result of their forced removal and incarceration – and also the sense of hope they found in community spaces built inside the prison camp during their unjust imprisonment.“The only real difference is that not all Mexican Americans are being detained.

who were arrested under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The event will include a multi-day educational conference taking place in San Antonio on Friday.which presented an exhibition titled A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.

who worked for the NPS for 34 years.we know that the administration has already erased LGBTQ history from web content and historic sites managed by the National Park Service

Since my arrival in Los Angeles in 2022.I have been greatly impressed by the history of the Japanese American community here.