A panel discussion and screening of the documentary film, "Blossoms & Thorns: A Community Uprooted." During World War II, Executive Order 9066 required all persons of Japanese ancestry to evacuate the West Coast. Local Japanese American nursery growers were forcibly removed from their homes and businesses to barren, desert incarceration camps.
This video recounts the struggle, dismay, and resiliency of these Richmond families who returned to reclaim their place in the floral industry and in their significantly changed neighborhood.
This presentation is part of California Reads in West County; funded by CAL Humanities.