Resisters.com
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CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION: Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration
Description
Producer, Director and Writer FRANK ABE is a former senior reporter for KIRO Newsradio, the CBS affiliate in Seattle. In his 14-year career he wrote and produced numerous reports, broadcast live from Japan, Korea and Thailand, and produced a weekly series featuring writers of color, "Other Voices." He won numerous awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, the Washington State Bar Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Academy of Religious Broadcasting, and others.
Abe helped produce the first-ever "Day of Remembrance" in 1978 with Frank Chin and Lawson Inada, and together they invented a new Japanese American tradition by producing car caravans and media events in Seattle and Portland that publicly dramatized the campaign for redress. "Days of Remembrance" are now observed as an annual event wherever Japanese Americans live. Abe was project director in 1980 for a series of successful public symposiums, "Japanese America: Contemporary Perspectives on the Internment," funded by the Washington Commission for the Humanities. Abe supervised the editing and publication of the proceedings of those events, and produced a radio documentary drawn from the testimony.
Abe is a former National Vice-President of the Asian American Journalists Association, and taught broadcast writing at Seattle University. He was a founding member of the Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco, studied at the American Conservatory Theater, and was featured as an internment camp leader in John Korty's 1976 NBC-TV movie, Farewell to Manzanar.
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- Resisters.com Productions
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- Seattle WA
- United States 98144
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- (206) 722-3482
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