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Documentary Film Series on Race: “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights”

fred korematsuIn an effort to have meaningful discussions about race, join faculty, students and alumni on Wednesday, November 13, at 6:00 pm for the final event in this fall’s Documentary Film Series on Race—a screening of Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story (2001, directed by Eric Paul Fournier). The film will be followed by a discussion led by Professor Vinay Harpalani.

Editorial Review:

In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary—a civil rights champion. Award-winning director Eric Paul Fournier follows Korematsu’s story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again.

Information:

Wednesday, November 13, at 6:00 pm
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium

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