As part of the California Reads program, USF Professor and editor Brian Komei Dempster and four former Japanese American concentration camp internees will share their first-person accounts of this time period during World War II. Mr. Dempster is the editor of Making Home From War: stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement and From Our Side of the Fence: Growing up in America's Concentration Camps.
This project is funded by CAL Humanities and is part of Searching for Democracy, an initiative of the California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the California Center for the Book and the California State Library, and made possible with funding from Bay Tree Foundation, the Seedling Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information visit www.calhum.org