{"id":4387,"date":"2018-02-11T20:16:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2018-02-10T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T16:52:20","slug":"free-film-screening-and-discussion-for-day-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/free-film-screening-and-discussion-for-day-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Film Screening and Discussion for Day of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Families and staff are invited to participate in an afternoon of learning, compliments of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. On Sunday, February 18 at 2 p.m. the museum will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/Events\/Calendar\/?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20180218#\/?i=1\">free screening<\/a> of the film &#8220;Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight For Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The screening is in observance of the Day of Remembrance, which marks President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 and subsequent incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/DOR-2018-flyer-FINAL.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/DOR-flier-465x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a>The documentary film features Japanese American lawyer Minoru Yasui, who challenged the legality of the Executive Order, and is an in-depth study of civil rights and the Constitution. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the producer and co-director, Holly Yasui, Minoru Yasui&#8217;s daughter, along with Zainab Chaudary\u00a0of ReThink Media and Director\u00a0Doron Ezickson\u00a0of the DC Regional Anti-Defamation League. The discussion will be moderated by\u00a0Professor Phil Tajitsu Nash\u00a0of the University of Maryland College Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The film is being presented in conjunction with the museum\u2019s exhibition, &#8220;Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II.\u201d After the screening and discussion, attendees can explore objects out of storage, engage in hands-on learning developed by the museum and visit the exhibition on the museum\u2019s second floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The screening will be held in the S.C. Johnson Conference Center, 1 West in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/\"><strong>National Museum of American History<\/strong><\/a>, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW. Admission is free.\u00a0Requests for accessibility services can be made by phone: 202-633-3150, or email: <a href=\"mailto:nmahprograms@si.edu\">nmahprograms@si.edu<\/a>. Two-weeks\u2019 prior notice is preferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy an afternoon of learning, compliments of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. On February 18  the museum will host a free screening of the film: &#8220;Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight For Justice,&#8221; in conjunction with the museum\u2019s exhibition, &#8220;Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II,\u201d in observance of the Day of Remembrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-opportunities"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:56:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4427,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}