Tag: asian law caucus

• Ron Takaki Passes Away at 70

  UPDATE 5/29: Below is the text from an article by Yasmin Anwar of UC Berkeley Public Affairs. And a poignant commentary from Dale Minami here. Ronald Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a preeminent scholar of U.S. race relations who taught the University of California’s first black history […]

  Keith Kamisugi

  May 27, 2009

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• Asian Law Caucus Marks 25th Anniversary of Historic Civil Rights Decision with Launch of Fred Korematsu Institute

  In honor of a man who became a civil rights icon for defying the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Asian Law Caucus will officially launch the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education at the organization’s annual event on Thursday, April 30, in San Francisco. (I serve on […]

  Keith Kamisugi

  April 15, 2009

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• 67 Years Ago Today: FDR Imprisons Japanese Americans

  Sixty-seven years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense. The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West […]

  Keith Kamisugi

  February 19, 2009

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