CIVIL LIBERTIES UNITED: Expanding the American Story
A project by Write Now! SF Bay that explores the question "Who is American?"
Experience the struggle for opportunity, equality, and justice in the United States
by people of color—indigenous, enslaved, refugees, immigrants, and their descendants.
Diverse voices from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Poetry, prose, and visual art by forty writer and artists of color drawn from their lived experience. Set in the context of historical, social, and legal issues impacting indigenous peoples and migrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and elsewhere.
Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment
Read about ordinary citizens who acted out of conscience when 120,000 Japanese American men, women, and children were forcibly incarcerated during World War II.
Virgnia Swanson • Walt & Milly Woodward • Elizabeth Humbargar • George Knox Roth
Herbert & Madeline Nicholson • Earl Finch
• The Hannan Family