Day of Rememberance at the University of Connecticut is a free, annual, public educational lecture/event that examines the history and significance of imprisoning people of Japanese ancestry in the Americas, the United States, Canada, and countires in Central and South America, during World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. At UConn, the Asian American Studies Institute initiated this event, observed annually in February to demonstrate its continued commitment to study this negalected aspect of US constitutional history. Originally funded by the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund to create a Japanese American Internment resource library and conceived to support the investigation of the issue by students, staff and faculty at UConn. The Institute facilitates this study by inviting formerly interned persons to share their recollections of life in the camps with the university community as a "Day of Rememberance." This program has developed into the region's most visible forum for educating the general public about this still largely neglected era of US history and associated implications for international politics and human rights.
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