By popular demand, Arlene Makita-Acuña and Elina Juvonen are repeating this tour prior to the August 30th closing of the exhibit on Japanese Americans in Berkeley.
Visit Arlene Makita-Acuña’s childhood neighborhood, a red-lined district in post-WWII Berkeley. The walk proceeds on two parallel tracks, placing the post-WWII neighborhood beside its pre-war predecessor. We will pass residences lived in by Japanese Americans and African Americans in the late 1940s and 1950s and discuss the intercultural exchanges that took place. We will also highlight the important role played by the three Japanese American churches and one Buddhist temple active in the neighborhood both before and after the war, as well as of the Japanese American owned and operated family grocery store, the Koide Market. This post-war picture will be interspersed with that of the pre-war neighborhood, with the names and addresses of some of the almost 1,000 Japanese Americans who lived in this neighborhood in 1940 and were then incarcerated in 1942. (Length about 1 mile, all flat.)
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