EPISODE · Oct 9, 2020 · 6 MIN
When Buddhists Were a "Threat to National Security" (from "Enlightened America?")
from Virginia Humanities · host Virginia Humanities
After the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941, the FBI labeled Buddhist Japanese-Americans a “national security threat.” And while more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans would eventually be sent to internment camps, Buddhists were the first to be arrested and detained after the attack. Nathan talks with scholar Duncan Ryuken Williams about one family’s efforts to preserve their Buddhist faith in the face of persecution and internment.
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