Iwassaki From Conscience and the Constitution. Frank Abe will be present at the screening, which is co-sponsored by the Arizona Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association, Arizona Asian American Bar Association and Phoenix Public Library.
Admission is free.
On the day after Memorial Day, Phoenix Public Library hosts a discussion of a forgotten chapter from the Great War saga. Journalist and filmmaker Frank Abe will be present at a screening of his documentary Conscience and the Constitution on Tuesday, May 29, at Burton Barr Central Library. Detained were both the Issei , or immigrants, and the Nisei , their U.S.-born offspring. A third-generation Japanese American from northern California, Abe says he grew up wondering why his elders passively complied with the incarceration. The standard answer was that they did so to prove their loyalty as Americans.