BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.3538@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20120209T000000Z DTEND:20120312T000000Z DESCRIPTION:In 1942\, following President Franklin D. Roosevelt&rsquo\;s si gning of Executive Order 9066\, some 120\,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast were moved into internment camps for the duration of the war. They were allowed to take only the possessions they could carry and were forced to abandon their businesses and personal property. The legacy of that experience is explored in If They Came For Me Today: The Japanese A merican Internment Project\, a powerful living history exhibition documen ting the experiences of Japanese American internees. This multimedia exhi bition\, developed by Community Works with students at George Washington\ , Balboa\, and Horace Mann schools in San Francisco\, honors those who we re interned or impacted by the internment. Drawing on the oral histories of Japanese Americans who were themselves interned or whose parents were internees\, the students worked to create a unique exhibition that simult aneously chronicles the experiences of one generation and the reactions o f another.\n\nRead more at http://www.harlemonestop.com/event.php?id=13758 OR http://www.communityworkswest.org/index.php/jaip DTSTAMP:20240416T101002Z SUMMARY:If they Came for Me Today: The Japanese American Internment Project URL:/en/events/2012/02/09/if-they-came-for-me-today-the-japanese-american-i / END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR