Thursday, May 4th, 6:30 pm CSTPresented by the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
Live streamed through YouTube.
All virtual attendees must pre-register to receive the link for the stream.
Summary:
Please join the Wisconsin Maritime Museum on May 4th at 6:30pm for our free Think & Drink series presentation "Japanese Internment, Racism, and Americanism: Views from Wisconsin" with in-person speaker Joy Block. The featured drink of the night will be a Matcha Mint Julep.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, over 100,000 people of Japanese descent lived on the U.S. mainland. About two thirds were full citizens, born and raised in the United States. Following the attack, a wave of anti-Japanese sentiment and fear led the U.S. government to pass drastic legislation. Executive Order 9066, which violated essential constitutional rights, forced 125,284 Japanese Americans from their homes and into internment camps.
Join UW Madison's Joy Block as she talks about Japanese internment, the anti-Japanese sentiment during wartime that swept across the U.S., and what proving American allegiance meant for Japanese Americans, especially 2nd-generation immigrants. Learn about Wisconsin's role during this period of persecution and the Japanese Americans who lived and worked in the state as well as those who trained at Fort McCoy.
