Robert M. Shoji

In March of 1965 there was a civil rights march that included Martin Luther King Jr. and a young 21-year-old Japanese American activist. This march has been forgotten by time.

In March of 1965 there was a civil rights march that included Martin Luther King Jr. and a young 21-year-old Japanese American activist. This march has been forgotten by time.

A meditative and trenchant experimental video essay on L.A.’s Little Tokyo, its rich histories, and the constant threat of gentrification and redevelopment it faces. The peril of ethnic erasure looms large in this prime location adjacent to DTLA and its hub of transit networks. Part of Visual Communications’ Digital Histories program.