Learn about Japanese American internment camps in the United States during World War II. Explore how the government justified this practice against...
government, even going so far as to say that Japanese American Incarceration camps were for the benefit of those imprisoned to keep them “safe” while dictating that the photographs hide the guard towers and barbed wire.“Three Boys Behind Barbed Wire”, taken by Toyo Miyatake in 1944. The ...
Continue readingThe North American Post interview→ Share this: LinkedIn Our graphic novelWe Hereby Refuseweaves together the stories of three Nisei who refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. On Sept. 18 we got to meet three of their children and hear ...
2023 Statement from President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on the Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, eighty-one years ago today, it ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history. The wrongful incarcerati...
Our graphic novel We Hereby Refuse weaves together the stories of three Nisei who refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. On Sept. 18 we got to meet three of their children and hear what they think about the book. Continue reading The descendants of...
Starting today and for the month of May you can watch director Rory Banyard’s new film on Minidoka,Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp,onselect local PBS stationsand thePBS app. I want to thank Rory for calling me in to talk about the Munson Report, the wartime JACL, grow...
Frank Abe, a third-generation Japanese American, grew up being told that his parents’ generation had passively submitted to the wholesale denial of their rights during World War II in order to prove their loyalty. The early question of his generation, “Why didn’t you resist?,” was usuall...
It’s a one-day film series held in conjunction with the Bay Area Day of Remembrance, commemorating the 71st anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which set the wheels in motion to forcibly relocate some 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during...
Thanks also to those who came to our Thursday afternoon panel, “Revisiting the Sites of Japanese American Wartime Incarceration.” Our presenters revisited the camps on three very different levels – the physical, the emotional, and the imaginative. Brian Niiya described how the preservation of ...
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