2700 Evergreen Parkway Northwest
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505
USA
The stories of local Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in Idaho concentration camps during World War II are the subject of a talk by Tom Ikeda, founder and executive director of Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, on Thursday, February 27th, at 7:00 p.m. at the Longhouse Cultural Center on the Evergreen campus in Olympia. Admission is free and open to the public.
Ikeda’s presentation, “When Citizenship Didn’t Matter: Personal Stories from Japanese Americans Incarcerated during World War II,” will explore issues of democracy, intolerance, wartime hysteria and civil rights, based on hundreds of oral histories conducted by Densho over the last 18 years.
The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway in Olympia. Buses #41 and #48 from downtown Olympia stop at campus every 15 minutes. Parking is $2.00.
