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http://amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/
Focuses on the experience of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps in World War II.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/
In-depth online exhibit of the history (from notification to the move to Minidoka) and daily camp life of Japanese-Americans in this WW II relocation assembly camp. Photos, eyewitness accounts, issues of camp newspaper, WRA regulations, staff memos, correspondence.
http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/
Companion website to a PBS documentary of the experiences of Japanese American children interned behind barbed wire during World War II.
http://www.resisters.com/
Video documentary on the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, the largest organized resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Primary documents, study guide, news updates.
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/
The story of the young Japanese Americans who refused to be drafted from an American concentration camp in World War II. Biographies, timeline, documents, letters, PBS film review.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html
Collection of contemporary photographs of the Japanese-Americans in the process of being interned.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/548228.html
The drafting of internees out of camps and into the Army; some resisted and went to prison. Excerpt from forthcoming book.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
Newspaper coverage of the day, PowerPoint presentations, Dorothea Lange's documentary photos, links.
http://www.janm.org/
Resources about the WW II Japanese-American relocation and internment experience.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/24/interned.orphans/
Orphanages packed orphans of Japanese ancestry off to government relocation camps during WW II. CNN article.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/nd.html
A first-hand account of a little girl's impressions at being trapped behind a fence guarded by machine guns during the WW II evacuation of Japanese-Americans. Excerpt from book "Nisei Daughter" by Monica Itoi Stone.
http://www.masumihayashi.com/html/htmt.html
Cleveland-based artist/photographer presents art and research about the WW II internment of Japanese-Americans.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/wrapam.html
1943 War Relocation Authority pamphlet covering background, program, evacuees, students, evacuee property. Image of original cover. Photos.
http://amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/internment_main.html
Synopsis of Japanese-American Internment exhibition that "celebrates the Constitution but goes on to reveal how in a time of grave national crisis, racial fear and prejudice swept away the freedoms it guarantees."
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/
The Library of Congress presents Ansel Adams's photographs of Japanese American internment at Manzanar.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.01.x.html
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute presents an examination of Supreme Court cases relevant to the West Coast relocation program with historical background and social environment. Notes, unit test, and list of materials for classroom use.
http://gaylonn.com/tulelake/
Information and resources on a WWII Japanese-American internment camp, located in Tule Lake, California.
http://tulelakescrapbook.com/Home_Page.html
Scrapbook kept by a woman who taught in the camp. Includes photos and biography.
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/
Images depict the daily life of Japanese-American interns.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0
Collection taken by photographers working for the U.S. Government.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/wcca.html
List of rules in force at assembly centers used in the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast in WW II on their way to internment at relocation camps.
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