Civil Liberties Section
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Stewart Ikeda has been an outspoken advocate for civil liberties and social justice. He has spoken, taught and published extensively on the exclusion and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the movement for reparations and redress, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and its implications today.
His award-winning book, What the Scarecrow Said (HarperCollins ReganBooks), chronicles this sad chapter of American history through the eyes of multiple generations of a Japanese American family, from the late nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth.
His essays on these topics have appeared in such publications as the collection Last Witnesses, The Pacific Citizen Newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League, NikkeiWest, New American Media, IMDiversity Asian-American Village and many others.
He has spoken in media and panels at such venues as: Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, the Japanese American National Museum, the Arizona Humanities Council, Delaware Arts Council, and Association for Asian American Studies, as well as in numerous college settings.
Ikeda also contributed to projects through the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund to address diverse audiences ranging from schoolchildren to college and senior groups.
Related Links
 Speaking on panel at Los Angeles' Japanese American National Museum with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Julie Shigekuni, and Lawson Inada |  At the Transforming Barbed Wire Conference in Phoenix, with Hisaye Yamamoto, Mitsuye Yamada, Wakako Yamauchi, Lawson Inada and Rick Noguchi |  Numerous interviews, publications and public talks on internment, relocation, Civil Liberties Act, and their historical legacy and contemporary issues |
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 At a reconstructed internment camp setting in Little Tokyo at the start of a book tour promoting What the Scarecrow Said |  Reading in Los Angeles during the book tour for What the Scarecrow Said |