Densho

Email info@densho.org
Website https://densho.org/

Events from this organization

Today

  • Poster reads: 'To all persons of JAPANESE ancestry and FRIENDS The Memory of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Three Hundred and Thirteen Issei, Nisei, Sansei and others of Japanese ancestry request the pleasure of your company for A DAY OF REMEMBERANCE Remember the concentration camps stand for redress with your family on Saturday, November 25, 1978 JOIN THE CARAVAN at 12 Noon - Sick's Stadium Parking Lot Rainier Ave S. and McClellan and ride to what was once "Camp Harmony" and home to 7,200 Japanese Americans. ENTER PUYALLUP FAIRGROUNDS at 2 PM and Raise the flag over Camp Harmony to remember the years of hardship Japanese America endured to make the United States home for their parents, themselves, their children, and all the Nikkei generations to come.'

    Densho (Out of Many, One display)

    International District Chinatown Library (Seattle Public Library) 713 Eighth Ave S, Seattle, WA, United States

    Poster for the first Day of Remembrance This poster advertised the first Day of Remembrance, held in Seattle and Puyallup, Washington, on November 25, 1978. The event brought Japanese American families and community members back to the Puyallup Fairgrounds, the site of the wartime Puyallup Assembly Center, also known euphemistically as “Camp Harmony,” where many […]