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They Called Us Enemy
February 13 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 pm
An Online Author Event with George Takei
Tue, February 13, 2024
9 am (PT)
We welcome students, educators, and lifelong-learners to join us for an online author event and virtual conversation with actor, author, and civil rights activist George Takei. In his acclaimed graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, Takei shares the story of his family’s forced incarceration as Japanese Americans during WWII, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future as an upstander.
This event in our 2023-2024 All Community Read will be broadcast live online as a classroom-friendly YouTube event, and will feature a special Q&A with questions from Facing History students.
Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be available
George Takei is a civil rights activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor whose career has spanned six decades. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles, most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, and he has used his success as a platform to fight for social justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and marriage equality. His advocacy is personal: during World War II, Takei spent his childhood unjustly imprisoned in United States incarceration camps along with 125,000 other Japanese Americans. Read more about George Takei here.