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Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Susan H. Kamei

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Date: Sept. 25, 2021

Time: 1 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.



All members are invited to this exclusive conversation with the author and scholar behind When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, Susan H. Kamei.

The daughter and granddaughter of incarcerees, Susan H. Kamei volunteered in the redress campaign and served as National Deputy Legal Counsel for the JACL Legislative Education Committee. She teaches a history course at the University of Southern California on the incarceration and its relevance to constitutional, political, and social issues today.

When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII will be available in the JANM Store starting September 7th.

This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are required in advance at the link below, by email to memberevents@janm.org, or phone at 213.830.5646. Space is limited so RSVP today!

RSVP HERE

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Join us for the book discussion after the meet-and-greet at 2:00 pm (PDT): CLICK HERE


authors books Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Susan H. Kamei When Can We Go Back to America? (book) World War II

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