"During World War II, when America's patriotic fervor was at its height, Japanese Internment camps were cropping up agross the country. Two towns in Arkansas, segregated and poor, became sites for two of those notorious camps. Sixteen thousand Japanese-American men, woman and children were forcibly relocated to these camps, where they lived without freedoms, behind barbwire, and under the watchful scrutiny of American Military police. In interviews and footrage, the film "Time of Fear," brings to life the ordeals and struggles of the camp detainees and the Arkansas town during this unprecedented era in American history.
Mpecial guest speaker Mitsue Salador, who was briefly interned in a West Coast camp, was on hand to discuss her own families' experiences of displacement, heroism and racism"