Memories of Internment
Speaker:
Grace Amemiya
02 Mar 2012
12:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Grace Amemiya was a nursing student at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Her education was interrupted when she and her family, along with 120,000 other Americans of Japanese heritage, were detained in internment camps. Grace Amemiya will talk about her personal experiences as a former internee. She is an Ames resident who often speaks on the impact of internment and has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning News. Part of the 2012 Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, ISCORE.
Registration is open for the 13th annual Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, ISCORE, to be held March 2, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., in the Memorial Union.
ISCORE is a comprehensive forum on issues of race and ethnicity at Iowa State and beyond. Students, staff and faculty will provide concurrent sessions, and Nana Osei-Kofi, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies, will provide the 9:00 a.m. morning address.
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