The Japanese American Citizens League
Dayton & Cincinnati Chapters
2012 Installation Dinner
With Keynote Speech:
“One Person, One Vote”
Does Everyone’s Opinion Really Count?
by
Daniel P. Tokaji
Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law
and Senior Fellow, Election Law, Moritz College of Law
The Ohio State University
A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, Professor Tokaji. is an authority on election law and voting rights. He specializes in election reform, including such topics as voting technology, voter ID, provisional voting, and other subjects addressed by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
A Professor of Law at The Ohio State University, Daniel Tokaji's scholarship addresses questions of political equality, racial justice, and the role of the federal courts in American democracy. Professor Tokaji has worked with the ACLU and Common Cause, and has litigated many civil rights and election law cases. He has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Fox News, NBC News, and National Public Radio.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
China Cottage Restaurant: 6290 Far Hills Ave, Dayton, OH 45459
4:00 Reception / 5:00 Dinner
Followed by keynote address and installation program
$30/person
Please R.S.V.P. by Sunday, February 19th to:
Betsy Sato at (859) 384-1226 (email: kbsato@yahoo.com)
or to Tina Kuroiwa-Bazzan at (937) 912-5223 (email: tina.kuroiwa@gmail.com)
While the JACL’s founding mission was focused on protecting the civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry, today we are committed to protecting the rights of all segments of the Asian Pacific American community.
This change was first prompted in the early 1980’s when a young Chinese American man was murdered in Detroit when he was mistakenly identified as Japanese. The murder of Vincent Chin brought about the recognition by the JACL of the need for vigilance to maintain the rights of all Asian Americans. It became apparent that those who would do harm to Japanese Americans did not discriminate in their hatred and bigotry against Asians or other people of color.
During the past three decades, as the Asian American population has continued to grow, and as other Asian ethnic groups emerged in the broader Asian American community, the JACL recognized the need and responded to the challenge of ensuring the rights and well being of all Asian Americans. Today, with inter-racial and multi-ethnic marriages changing the face of the Japanese American community, the JACL faces additional challenges in looking to its future and to the future of the Japanese American community.
Whatever the future may hold, as the nation’s oldest Asian American civil and human rights organization, the JACL will continue to dedicate itself to preserving the rights and well-being of all Asian Americans and other who fall victim to social injustice in the United States.