Thursday, August 28, 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Ann O’Neill, President of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Detroit, and Mary Kamidoi, JACL Treasurer and Camp Survivor
You've heard the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. But do you know what happened next? Shortly after arriving in the camps, the United States government set into motion its plans for resettling Japanese Americans elsewhere. Even before the end of the war, Japanese Americans were hired out of the camps into labor and industrial and secretarial jobs in Chicago and Detroit. Exiled to Motown is a collection of oral histories of the settlement and persistence of the Japanese American community in Detroit and how it continues to change and flourish as we eye the third decade of the 21st century.
Location:
Birmingham Next