HEART MOUNTAIN REENACTMENT

Community Conversation: Heart Mountain Reenactment

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. SUGGESTED DONATION OF $10.

In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing Japanese internment camps during World War II. One act of heroism and courage was exemplified by some 315 Japanese-American men that stood up to the draft in an act of civil disobedience, refusing to fight for the U.S. when their own constitutional rights and civil liberties were being denied. When your government takes away your rights as an American citizen and detains you and your family in internment camps without any due process, do you prove your loyalty to the United States by being drafted to fight in World War II or do you resist the draft and challenge the constitutionality of the government’s actions? 

Come join us for an abridged reading of trial transcripts and personal accounts that tell the story of the Heart Mountain Draft Resisters. This Community Conversation is presented by Colorado Dragon Boat and the Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA).