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Asian American Film Series: Abacus: Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice

July 7, 2018 @ 7:00 am PDT

This gripping documentary tells the story of Minoru (Min) Yasui. The first Japanese American attorney in Oregon, Yasui initiated a legal test case by deliberately violating military orders that lead to the incarceration of over 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry in U.S. concentration camps. Yasui spent 9 months in solitary confinement awaiting his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him. After the war, he moved to Denver and continued to defend human and civil rights. In the 1970s and 1980s, he spearheaded the redress movement to win reparations and a formal apology from the government for the injustices against Japanese Americans during World War II. He also reopened his wartime case, and it was in appeal when he died in 1986. (2017, 55 min, Directed by Holly Yasui & Will Doolittle, Narrated by George Takei)

Q & A after screening with the filmmaker, Holly Yasui

*A Pre-film box meal will be available for $8 starting at 6 PM. Call (805) 961-5367 or email education@sbthp.org to reserve a box.

Doors Open 6 PM | Screening 7 PM | Reception to Follow

Alhecama Theatre, 215 A, E Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara

Tickets: Free for members, $5 suggested donation for non-members

*Free parking in the lot at the corner of Santa Barbara and Canon Perdido Streets (behind Panino)

For more information: (805) 965-0093

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Date:
July 7, 2018
Time:
7:00 am PDT

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