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Thursday Night at the Movies: Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. at the Officers' Club in the Presidio of San Francisco.

Date: Thursday January 7, 2010

A film chronicling the life and work of noted author and civil rights activist Michi Nishiura Weglyn  who gave up her successful career as costume designer  to write a the seminal book “Years of Infamy, the Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps,”  that set the record straight about the forced incarceration of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II (2008, 14 minutes).