Japanese Interment Camps

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Should Americans be forced to pledge allegiance to the American flag or be allowed to deface the flag as a sign or protest? What does the Constitution say about it? These issues and more concerning the flag have been a hotly debated topic among Supreme Court Justices since the World War II era.

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The Japanese-American Artist Who Went to the Camps to Help

Kathleen Massara on the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi and his experiences as a detainee at an internment camp during the Second World War.

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Manzanar Children’s Village: Japanese American Orphans in a WWII Concentration Camp - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment Native American Boarding Schools, Japanese Internment, Family Separation, Gothic Novel, American Children, Japanese American, Oral History, University Of Minnesota, Pearl Harbor

Native American Boarding Schools

University Of Minnesota

Pearl Harbor

Manzanar Children’s Village: Japanese American Orphans in a WWII Concentration Camp - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

The euphemistically named Manzanar Children's Village was a prison specifically for orphaned Japanese American children during WWII.

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Japanese-American Internment [ushistory.org]

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the confinement of ALL Americans of Japanese ancestry for the duration of WWII. Over 127,000 American citizens were imprisoned, though there was no evidence that they had committed or were planning any crimes.

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Read These "Camp" Memoirs for a First-Person Look at Japanese American WWII Incarceration - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment Japanese Internment, Pearl Harbor Attack, Japanese American, University Of California, Japanese Women, Family History, Memoirs, Book Worms, Houston

Japanese Internment

Pearl Harbor Attack

Japanese American

University Of California

Read These "Camp" Memoirs for a First-Person Look at Japanese American WWII Incarceration - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

When we think of Japanese American memoirs of the concentration camp experience, most of us think of a handful of older classic titles first: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston’s...

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Documentary Photographers

Asian American

Pearl Harbor

Why Mixed with White isn't White

When Sharon Chang tells her son that he is Asian and mixed-race, she's trying to help him understand what it means to be multiracial and a person of color in America.

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How Photographers Captured the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII

A new exhibition examines a dark history.

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Colors of Confinement (Published 2012)

Newly discovered Kodachrome color photographs from a Japanese American Internment Camp in Wyoming, 1943-44.

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The japanese were shiped from there homes to the interment camps ware they stayed until the war was over.

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Japanese interment camps

Should Americans be forced to pledge allegiance to the American flag or be allowed to deface the flag as a sign or protest? What does the Constitution say about it? These issues and more concerning the flag have been a hotly debated topic among Supreme Court Justices since the World War II era.

Kathleen Massara on the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi and his experiences as a detainee at an internment camp during the Second World War.

The euphemistically named Manzanar Children's Village was a prison specifically for orphaned Japanese American children during WWII.

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the confinement of ALL Americans of Japanese ancestry for the duration of WWII. Over 127,000 American citizens were imprisoned, though there was no evidence that they had committed or were planning any crimes.

When we think of Japanese American memoirs of the concentration camp experience, most of us think of a handful of older classic titles first: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston’s...

When Sharon Chang tells her son that he is Asian and mixed-race, she's trying to help him understand what it means to be multiracial and a person of color in America.

A new exhibition examines a dark history.

Newly discovered Kodachrome color photographs from a Japanese American Internment Camp in Wyoming, 1943-44.

The japanese were shiped from there homes to the interment camps ware they stayed until the war was over.

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