Sarah J Conti

Black-Chinned Sparrow - Frank Emi, 2025
Ceramic, Underglaze, Ribbon
4.50 x 5.50 x 4.50 in
$265
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Frank Emi  1916-2010

 

A Japanese American civil rights activist, Frank Emi was a leading figure of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, an ad hoc group who protested the drafting of Japanese Americans interned during World War II.  Emi argued it was unconstitutional to conscript men who had been stripped of their civil rights into military service and advised Nisei (second-generation Japanese immigrants) who received draft orders to demand they be released from camp before reporting for duty. He was convicted of conspiring to violate the Selective Service Act and served eighteen months of a four-year sentence in federal prison. For many years, Emi and his fellow draft resisters were condemned as troublemakers by the Japanese American Citizens League, but his legacy has more recently come to be seen as an important example of civil disobedience.

 

Black-chinned Sparrow populations have declined by 62% between 1970 and 2014.

 

 

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