Press: Sylvia Mendez works to memorialized landmark desegregation case into the state's curriculum
Sylvia Mendez works to memorialized landmark desegregation case into the state's curriculum
Press: Future ‘walk through history’ trail to honor the landmark Westminster school segregation case
Future ‘walk through history’ trail to honor the landmark Westminster school segregation case
Press: Meet Janice Munemitsu, a conversation with CanvasRebel
We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Janice Munemitsu. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Janice below.
Press: Entangled Inequalities: Japanese Incarceration and Mendez, et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County, et al.
The Munemitsu/Mendez narrative has been officially featured on the U.S. National Park Service website within the "All American Stories" section!
Press: Culturephile- Author Describes A Landmark O.C. Friendship
Author Janice Munemitsu of Newport Beach tells the true story of two Orange County immigrant families whose fates intertwined as they faced racism during World War II.
Podcast: Janice Munemitsu: The Kindness of Color
Today, you’re going to hear what happens when people come together across cultures to support each other – amidst a backdrop of World War, racism, fear, and segregation in 1940s America.
Daily Pilot: Westminster opens Mendez Tribute Monument Park, celebrating historic civil rights case
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2022-12-02/westminster-opens-mendez-tribute-monument-park-celebrating-historic-civil-rights-case
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies
Click to hear my interview on the Past Forward podcast!
Overcoming Fear and Anger with Love and Wisdom
Click to hear my interview on the Education for Love and Wisdom podcast with Vanguard University!
Westminster School District celebrates its 150th birthday
Click here to read about the Westminster School District’s 150th Anniversary!
Poston Pilgrimage – Oct. 21-22, 2022
You are invited to join me for the Poston Pilgrimage, hosted by the Poston Community Alliance! History comes to life during this two day event with workshops, meals, and more.
Cultures United: A Conversation Series Interview
Thank you to the OC United Way for allowing me to be a speaker in the Cultures United Conversation series. Watch my interview and the amazing other speakers from this series now!
Crystal Cove Conservancy Interview
Click here to watch my interview with the Crystal Cove Conservancy about Japanese American Community here in Orange County past and present! What a wonderful time!
A True Story of Families Fighting Racism
The Sansei author describes the book as “the true story of two immigrant families who came to Southern California for better lives, only to face their own separate battles against racism in the midst of World War II. One family came by land from Mexico and the other by sea from Japan. Little did they expect their paths would meet and lead to justice and desegregation for all the schoolchildren of California in Mendez, et al. v. Westminster (1947) — seven years before Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
OCDE Newsroom | New book documents bond between two OC families on the road to school desegregation
A new book tells the story of how two immigrant families intersected on the path to desegregating public schools in Orange County and across California.