On Friday, Aug. 16, the Dakota County Historical Society is hosting Sally Sudo for its August Mendota After Hours on the topic: “Life in an American Concentration Camp: The Japanese American Experience During WWII.”
Sudo will speak about her first-hand experience in a concentration camp in the United States during WWII. U.S. government policies imprisoned 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry solely based on race. As a child, Sudo was imprisoned for 3.5 years, after President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, at the Puyallup Assembly Center in Washington state and then on to the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho. In August 1945, her family relocated to Minneapolis, where her brother was stationed at Fort Snelling in the Military Intelligence Service Language School.
Since retiring from teaching in the Minneapolis Public Schools, Sudo has devoted her life to educating the public about injustices suffered by Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII, so history will not repeat itself.
Entry is $20 for non-members and $15 for members. To register online beforehand, visit https://dakotahistory.org/events/1019-aug-16-mendota-after-hours-life-in-an-american-concentration-camp-the-japanese-american-experience-during-wwii