Examines the events which led to the evacuation of Japanese-Americans in World War II, exposing the influential figures who were responsible for their confinement
"Japanese American Incarceration argues that the incarceration of Japanese Americans created a massive system of prison labor that blurred the lines between free and forced work during World War II"--
For a floor plan, elevations, and sections of a Jerome barracks apartment building, see Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord, Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American ...
In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three...
Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil.
This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi, ...
... 248, 292 Kuroki, Fred, 26–28, 190 Kuroki, Shosuke, 26 Kusumoto, Chiyo, 81 La Guardia, Fiorello, 4 Lange, Dorothea, 179 Larson, Erik, 133–34 Latin American Japanese, 92–93, 214, 278 Laval, Pierre, 113 Lavery, Father Hugh, 48 Leonard, ...
Source : Clifford I. Uyeda , Suspended : Growing Up Asian in America ( San Francisco : National Japanese American Historical Society , 2000 ) , pp . 229-30 , 233-5 . Document 11 TESTIMONY OF WARREN FURUTANI BEFORE THE COMMISSION ON ...
Essays include: - A short narrative history of the Japanese in America before World War II - The evacuation - Life within barbed wire-the assembly and relocation centers - The question of loyalty-Japanese Americans in the military and draft ...
... to transfer directly to new schools without spending time in a concentration camp.16 Gyo Obata made the decision to resettle ... Chiura Obata, a professor of art at Berkeley, that he would not comply with the unconstitutional exile.
The American-born author describes her family's experiences and impressions when they were forced to relocate to a camp for the Japanese in Owens Valley, California, called Manzanar, during World War II, detailing how she, among others, ...