The Trial of the Heart Mountain Draft Resisters - Frank Emi
Frank Emi was one of the leaders of the Fair Play Committee at the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, during World War II. He was convicted of resisting the draft when the U.S. Army began drafting Japanese Americans out of camp, and was imprisoned for eighteen months at Leavenworth, Kansas. In this clip, Frank describes the trial for him and his fellow draft resisters from Heart Mountain.
This clip is an excerpt from Frank Emi's oral history interview conducted March 20, 1994, by Chizu and Emiko Omori for their documentary Rabbit in the Moon. To see the complete interview segment, visit the Densho Digital Repository (http://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1002-9-15/).
More Information:
- Learning Center: http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/
- Timeline & Key Historical Dates (Japanese American Incarcertation): http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/timeline-jai/
- Shattering the Myth of the "Quiet American": http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/quite-american/
- Everyday Popular Resistance: http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/resistance/
- Draft Resistance: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Draft_resistance/
- Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Heart_Mountain_Fair_Play_Committee/
- Frank Emi: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Frank_Emi/
