THE MANGELS LECTURESHIP SERIES
on Reparations in the United
States
All lectures will be held on the UW
Seattle Campus, in Kane Hall 130.
October 13, 2001 7 pm
Manning Marable
Professor of History and Political Science, Columbia University
Reparations: Black Reparations
and the Future of Race in America
January 17, 2002 6 pm
Alice Petrivelli
Chair of The Aleut Corporation (TAC)
Aleut Relocation and Restoration
*** Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dimitri
Philemonof, the original speaker for the January 17 Mangels Lecture, will be
unable to appear. ***
We are however pleased to announce that Alice
Petrivelli, a formerly-interned Atkan Aleut, will discuss "Aleut Relocation
and Restoration." Ms. Petrivelli presently serves as the Chair of The Aleut
Corporation (TAC) and is a board member on the Alaska Trust Company. She
also represents TAC on the following boards: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, Alaska Native Heritage Center Academy Board
and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Cultural Heritage Program Advisory Board.
She was a strong supporter of restitution for the displaced WWII Aleuts and
a part of the development of the Alaska Native Heritage Center.
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February 20, 2002 6 pm
Robert Shimabukuro
Writer and Historian
The Campaign for Japanese American
Redress
Executive Order 9066, signed by
President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, was
the instrument that allowed military commanders to designate areas
"from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order,
120,000 Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from
Western coastal regions to guarded
camps in the interior. These actions were carried
out without adequate security reasons and without any acts of espionage or
sabotage, and were motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria,
and a failure of political leadership.
The excluded individuals of Japanese
ancestry suffered enormous damages, both material and intangible, and there
were incalculable losses in education and job training, all of which
resulted in significant human suffering.
Mr. Shimabukuro is a local historian
who chronicles the history of the small group of Seattle activists who
started the national movement for Japanese American redress.
April 12, 2002 7 pm
Charles Ogletree
Attorney and Professor of Law, Harvard
University
Slavery Reparations
Charles Ogletree, Jr., noted Harvard law
professor and defense attorney, asserts that the United States has never
adequately addressed the lingering effects of slavery, racism, and
discrimination. The legal scholar and champion of social justice will
discuss the complex and controversial philosophy, practice and prospects of
the slavery reparations movement. Ogletree is part of a high-powered legal
team that includes Johnnie Cochran and Randall Robinson, which intends to
file a lawsuit that seeks reparations for the descendants of American
slaves.
Admission is free, but
a ticket is required. Tickets are available two weeks prior to
each lecture at the following University Bookstore locations:
University District,
Downtown Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Bothell
For more information,
contact lectures@u.washington.edu
or call 206.616.1825.
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