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		<title>Meet Our Museum: Executive Order 9066 and The Day of Remembrance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Our Museum series at the National Museum of American History

Noriko Sanefuji, program assistant of the National Museum of American History’s Division of Work and Industry, explains the significance of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. 

Time:
Thursday, February 18, 2010
12:15 p.m. &#8211; 1 p.m.
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Location:
Presidential Reception Suite, 1st floor
National Museum of American History
14th Street and Constitution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1691&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/02/01/meet-our-museum-executive-order-9066-and-the-day-of-remembrance/</link>
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		<title>Smithsonian Congress of Scholars Annual Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Activist Scholars Looking Forward/Looking Back:Bringing Culturally Diverse Scholarship to the Smithsonian.
Dr. Richard KurinDr. G Wayne CloughDr. Juanita Tamayo Lott
A Program in Recognition of the 40th Anniversaryof the Ethnic Studies Movement
Adopting a lively &#8220;talk show&#8221; format moderated by Dr. Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, this program features the perspectives of Smithsonian colleagues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1636&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/01/07/smithsonian-congress-of-scholars-annual-symposium/</link>
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		<title>Surf board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[on display as part of Creating Hawai&#8216;i until August 2010


This fiberglass surfboard was used by professional female surfer Rochelle Ballard of Kaua&#8216;i. She&#8217;s been surfing since age 10, when she fell in love with the sport. Since then, she&#8217;s been competing for two decades. Her highest rating was runner-up in the Association of Surfing Professionals&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1620&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/01/05/surf-board/</link>
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		<title>International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) poster, 1952</title>
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The National Museum of American History is anxious to collect artifacts which reflect the rich diversity of experiences from our past. The history of labor union organizing and the responses on the part of business and government are among the most important parts of our legacy.
We collected two posters illustrating labor protests against the persecution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1616&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/01/05/international-longshoremen%e2%80%99s-and-warehousemen%e2%80%99s-union-ilwu-poster-1952/</link>
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		<title>Honda Tofu Store Sign</title>
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Founded in 1917 by Japanese immigrants Eizo and Tsuyo Honda, Honda Tofu is one of the nation&#8217;s oldest tofu businesses. In 1914, Eizo Honda moved to Wahiawa on the island of Oahu, Hawai&#8216;i, with his wife Tsuyo and their three children and took over a general merchandise store. The property was leased from the California [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1606&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/01/05/honda-tofu-store-sign/</link>
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		<title>Hawaiian Flag Quilt, 1898</title>
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This quilt made its debut as part of the Creating Hawai&#8216;i showcase which opened in August 2009 at the National Museum of American History. Missionaries introduced quilting in Hawai&#8216;i in the 1820s, and by the 1840s the flag image began to appear in quilts. Soon after annexation in 1898, there was an increase in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1602&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/01/05/hawaiian-flag-quilt-1898/</link>
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		<title>Aloha shirt printing block and fabric</title>
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The exhibition Creating Hawai&#8216;i opened on August 21, 2009, and features aloha shirts. The precise origins of the aloha shirts are unclear, but Ellery Chun, owner of King-Smith Clothiers and Dry Goods, is believed to be the originator. Using leftover kimono fabric, Chun and his seamstress sister, Ethel Chun Lum, manufactured the first of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1594&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2010/01/05/aloha-shirt-printing-block-and-fabric/</link>
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		<title>Annual Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the War: Japanese American and African American Community Relationships in post-WWII California with playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and Professor Scott Kurashige

To mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which led to the imprisonment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, the Smithsonian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1571&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2009/12/07/annual-day-of-remembrance-at-the-smithsonian-2010/</link>
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		<title>New Media and New Asian American Cultural and Political Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brown Bag Lunch
with Professor Konrad Ng, PhD, Smithsonian APA Program Visiting Scholar
Assistant Professor, University of Hawai&#8216;i Academy for Creative Media

Come meet Dr. Konrad Ng, assistant professor at the University of Hawai&#8216;i Academy of Creative Media, who has been in residence with us at the APA Program since August. We figured since he&#8217;s only here for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1554&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2009/12/07/new-media-and-new-asian-american-cultural-and-political-engagement/</link>
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		<title>Backstage Pioneer of American Ballet</title>
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May Asaki Ishimoto, the daughter of Japanese immigrants, was an established wardrobe mistress from the 1960s to 1990. Her illustrious career spanned three major ballet companies: the National Ballet in Washington, DC; the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center in New York City; and the American Ballet Theatre, also at Lincoln Center in New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apanews.si.edu&blog=5633805&post=1549&subd=siapap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apanews.si.edu/2009/12/02/backstage-pioneer-of-american-ballet/</link>
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