The California History Center at De Anza College is hosting a series called “Ferguson: Racial profiling, Mass Incarceration and Civil Liberties.”
One of the projects in the series is the fence representing civil liberties, which was set up on Tuesday Feb. 17 and will run through March 12.
The fence was created to commemorate the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II and is set up around the flagpole in the main quad.
The interactive art fence aims to show connections between segregation, mass incarceration and civil liberties from past and present social events by allowing students to write about these issues on tags and tie them to the fence.
The tags, made to symbolize what Japanese-Americans had to wear while they were encamped, can be found in a box attached to the fence.
The goal of the fence is to bring the De Anza community together and discuss social issues, encouraging students to take action.