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DESCRIPTION:[inline:attc1d9a.jpg]\n<strong>"From 12/7 to 9/11: Lessons on t
 he Japanese American Internment" on View Through June 30 at UCLA's Researc
 h Library</strong>\n\n\nOn Feb. 19\, 1942\, President Franklin D. Roosevel
 t signed Executive Order 9066\, which authorized his secretary of war to e
 stablish military areas in which certain people were not allowed. Issued i
 n the wake of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7\, 1941\, the order 
 mentioned no ethnic groups\, but its execution focused exclusively on indi
 viduals of Japanese ancestry.\n\n"From 12/7 to 9/11: Lessons on the Japane
 se American Internment\," on view at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Libr
 ary through June 30 and organized in conjunction with the 65th anniversary
  of Executive Order 9066\, traces the effects of the order’s implementat
 ion and suggests troubling present-day parallels. The exhibit uses photogr
 aphs\, artwork and archival materials to tell personal stories that raise 
 serious questions about loyalty\, racism and goverment expediency and that
  plead for tolerance and understanding of other cultures\, religions and p
 oints of view.\n\nWithin a year of the executive order\, more than 110\,00
 0 people of Japanese ancestry\, including 175 UCLA students\, had been upr
 ooted from their homes and communities and imprisoned in camps ranging fro
 m California to Arkansas. The vast majority of these so-called "internees"
  were American citizens or legal residents on the West Coast whose only 
 “crime” was being of Japanese descent.\n\nThe U.S. government has sinc
 e acknowledged that racism rather than military necessity motivated these 
 actions. In 1976\, President Gerald Ford signed an order repealing Executi
 ve Order 9066\, stating that the removal was wrong. In 1988\, President Ro
 nald Reagan signed a civil liberties act that authorized payments of $20\,
 000 to each surviving person who had been incarcerated. The first of these
  checks was issued in 1990\, accompanied by an apology signed by President
  George H.W. Bush.\n\nThe lessons of Dec. 7\, 1941\, and Executive Order 9
 066 continue to resonate today. Some have drawn analogies between the bomb
 ing of Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11\, 2001\, and tho
 se analogies extend to the government’s subsequent treatment of people b
 ased solely on their ethnicity. Hoping to preserve civil liberties and kee
 p the government from repeating its mistakes\, many Asian American leaders
 \, organizations and individuals have\, since Sept. 11\, spoken out for to
 lerance and understanding and against discrimation and wrongful detention 
 of Muslims\, South Asians and Arab Americans.\n\nAmong the exhibit’s con
 tents are proof prints by Ansel Adams of photographs he took at the Manzan
 ar internment camp\; oil and watercolor paintings by George Matsusaburo Hi
 bi and Kango Takamura that both document camp life and evoke its bleakness
 \; and intimate drawings by Estelle Ishigo\, a Euro-American woman who vol
 untarily accompanied her husband to the camps\, which focus on the lives o
 f families and children. Photographs and publications provide an overview 
 of the military service of Japanese Americans\, which included the most de
 corated unit of its size in the U.S. Army. The experiences of UCLA student
 s are reflected through campus memos\, personal correspondence and UCLA ye
 arbooks from the 1940s.\n\nSelected pages from a 1983 ruling by U.S. Distr
 ict Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel that overturned the 1942 conviction of 
  Japapnese American Fred Korematsu for disobeying the executive order\, as
  well as materials documenting research conducted by lawyer Jack Herzig an
 d his wife\, Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig\, on behalf of Korematsu and his defens
 e team\, explore the actions that led to the government’s acknowledgment
  that its actions under Executive Order 9066 were wrong.  \n\nPhotographs\
 , artwork and personal stories of post-Sept. 11 detainees suggest that rac
 ial and ethnic profiling by the government in times of perceived danger is
  not a thing of the past. And books and articles by scholars who have stud
 ied or taught at UCLA expand on many of the subjects raised throughout the
  exhibit.\n\nThe exhibit draws from the holdings of the Research Library a
 nd its Department of Special Collections\, the Asian American Studies Cent
 er Reading Room/Library\, the University\nArchives\, and various private c
 ollections. It is organized by Lane Hirabayashi\, Marjorie Lee\, Robert Na
 kamura\, Don Nakanishi and Irum Shiekh of the UCLA Department of Asian Ame
 rican Studies and the Asian American Studies Center\, and by Norma Corral\
 , Dawn Setzer and Ellen Watanabe of the UCLA Library.\n\n\n \nAdmission to
  the library and exhibit is free. Library hours are:\n\n\n<ul><strong>Thro
 ugh June 3:</strong>    Monday–Thursday\, 7:30 a.m.–11 p.m.\; Friday\,
  7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.\; Saturday\, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.\; Sunday\, 1–10 p.m. (M
 ay 28\, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.).\n\n<strong>June 4–10:</strong>             Mon
 day–Friday\, 7:30 a.m.–midnight\; Saturday\, 9 a.m.–midnight\; Sunda
 y\, 10 a.m.–midnight.\n\n<strong>June 11–15:</strong>           Monday
 –Thursday\, 7:30 a.m.–midnight\; Friday\, 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.\n\n<stron
 g>June18–22:</strong>            Monday–Friday\, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.\n\n<s
 trong>June 25–30:</strong>           Monday–Thursday\, 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
 \; Friday–Saturday\, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.\n</ul>\n\n \nFor more information\,
  visit <a href="http://www2.library.ucla.edu/news/2152.cfm">www2.library.u
 cla.edu/news/2152.cfm</a> or call (310) 825-6925.\n\n\n \n-UCLA-\n
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SUMMARY:"From 12/7 to 9/11: Lessons on the Japanese American Internment" at
  UCLA's Research Library
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