Lectures & Discussions
"Uprooted" Lecture and Panel Discussion
Lectures & Discussions
"Uprooted" Lecture and Panel Discussion
Exhibition curator Morgen Young will moderate a panel discussion with Nisei James Tanaka, Tohoru Isobe, and Albert Komatsu, who will provide firsthand accounts of living and working in the farm labor camps. Young will also provide insights into the creation of the farm labor program, the national need for sugar beet labor, and Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer Russell Lee, whose documentation of the camps is featured in Uprooted.
Free with museum admission. RSVPs are recommended using the link below.
Image: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF34-073890-D.
About the Event
Exhibition curator Morgen Young will moderate a panel discussion with Nisei James Tanaka, Tohoru Isobe, and Albert Komatsu, who will provide firsthand accounts of living and working in the farm labor camps. Young will also provide insights into the creation of the farm labor program, the national need for sugar beet labor, and Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer Russell Lee, whose documentation of the camps is featured in Uprooted.
Free with museum admission. RSVPs are recommended using the link below.
Image: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF34-073890-D.
