"All of Us": A Symposium on Immigration and Civil Rights

Name: "All of Us": A Symposium on Immigration and Civil Rights
Start: 2025-09-27T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-27T16:00:00-07:00
Location: First Congregational United Church of Christ, Portland

Schedule

Sat Sep 27 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

First Congregational United Church of Christ, Portland | Portland, OR

Notions of belonging, rooted in debates about who is entitled to the freedoms promised by the United States of America, are central to actions being debated in Congress and courthouses today. Our newest exhibition, "The Yasui Family: An American Story," features family members’ shared commitment to equal justice through engagement with the local, state, and national forces that determined — and withheld — their civil rights. American-born U.S. citizen Minoru Yasui was fond of saying: “what is done to the least of us can be done to all of us.”
The “All of Us” public symposium will offer historical and legal context to debates about immigration and civil rights, focusing on two policies: the 1798 Act Respecting Alien Enemies and HB 2314 of the 1987 Oregon State Legislature, which made Oregon a sanctuary state. The symposium is free and open to the public, and speakers include legal scholars, historians, and advocates with firsthand experience.