Baseball Behind Barbed Wire Screening

The White Plains Public Library hosted a screening of Baseball Behind Barbed Wire in celebration of Asian American Heritage Month. The documentary revealed how baseball provided hope when 125,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of which were US Citizens, were unjustly incarcerated and stripped of their rights, homes and dignity during WWII. The movie was a moving display of their resilience, courage and determination through the unexpected yet uplifting lens of America’s pastime.

After the screening there was an engaging and insightful panel conversation featuring Japanese American activists Takeshi Furumoto and Suki Terada Ports. Furomoto was born in an internment camp, and Ports grew up in New York City where her mother was under house arrest by the FBI during WWII.