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Japanese-Americans internment camps

 

 

 

 

A Return to the Internment Camp

Video    The New York Times    18 May 2015

 

Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old

when he was sent

to the Amache internment camp

in Colorado.

 

Produced by: Mike Shum and Colin Archdeacon

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1L1Ng1l

Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8WlfChTtp4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs. I Tanaka

returning from the Poston Relocation Center in Arizona

to Los Angeles, September 1945.

 

Photograph: Hikaru Iwasaki

National Archives

 

For Japanese-Americans,

Housing Injustices Outlived Internment

In 1945, thousands were released from internment camps.

ut they couldn't return to the world they had left.

NYT

August 20, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/
magazine/japanese-internment-end-wwii-trailer-parks.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting tickets before transport

from the Poston Relocation Center in Arizona

in September 1945.

 

Photograph: Hikaru Iwasaki

National Archives

 

For Japanese-Americans,

Housing Injustices Outlived Internment

In 1945, thousands were released from internment camps.

ut they couldn't return to the world they had left.

NYT

August 20, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/
magazine/japanese-internment-end-wwii-trailer-parks.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rail cars transported Japanese-American citizens

from their homes in Woodland, Calif.,

to the Merced Assembly Center, about 125 miles away,

in May 1942.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

National Archives

 

For Japanese-Americans,

Housing Injustices Outlived Internment

In 1945, thousands were released from internment camps.

ut they couldn't return to the world they had left.

NYT

August 20, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/
magazine/japanese-internment-end-wwii-trailer-parks.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese-Americans were registered in San Francisco

before being sent to internment centers in 1942.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

 

Rarely Seen Photos of Japanese Internment

NYT

Feb. 8, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
rarely-seen-photos-japanese-internment-dorothea-lange/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kimiko Kitagaki guarding her family’s baggage in Oakland

before leaving by bus for the Tanforan assembly center.

 

Her father had been in the cleaning and dyeing business.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

 

Rarely Seen Photos of Japanese Internment

NYT

Feb. 8, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
rarely-seen-photos-japanese-internment-dorothea-lange/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field laborers

in front of a Wartime Civil Control Administration station in Byron,

where they had come for instructions and assistance

regarding their relocation.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

 

Rarely Seen Photos of Japanese Internment

By Maurice Berger        NYT        Feb. 8, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
rarely-seen-photos-japanese-internment-dorothea-lange/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Centerville, California, 1942.

 

This evacuee stands by her baggage

as she waits for an evacuation bus.

 

Dorothea Lange:

Politics of Seeing at Barbican Centre

G

Tue 19 Jun 2018    08.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2018/jun/19/
dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing-at-barbican-centre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese and Japanese-Americans

being evacuated from Los Angeles in 1942.

 

Photograph: Russell Lee

Library of Congress

 

1942 All Over Again?

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

NYT

NOV. 17, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/1942-all-over-again.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted notice informing people of Japanese ancestry

of imminent relocation rules

re fears of treason and spying

during early years of WWII.

 

Location: CA, US

 

Date taken: April 11, 1942

 

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2d4caa4524ab2f3f

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry

waits with the family baggage

before leaving by bus

for an assembly center

in the spring of 1942.

 

Clem Albers, California, April 1942. 210-G-2A-6.

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#home

 

Picturing the Century:

One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives

Eight Portfolios from Part II

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-28.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First-graders, some of Japanese ancestry,

at the Weill public school, San Francisco, Calif.,

pledging allegience to the United States flag.

 

The evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed

in War relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

 

SUMMARY:

Relocation of Japanese-Americans. Calif.

SUBJECTS:

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco.

April 1942

 

Source

U.S. War Relocation Authority. Via US Library of Congress

Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection

(Library of Congress)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JapaneseAmericansChildrenPledgingAllegiance1942.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment

 

Primary source > Library of Congress

TITLE: San Francisco, Calif., April 1942.

First-graders, some of Japanese ancestry,

at the Weill public school pledging allegience

to the United States flag.

 

The evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed

in War relocation authority centers for the duration of the war.

 

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange.

DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a43126 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a43126
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@field(NUMBER+@1(cph+3a43126))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The beginning of construction at the Tule Lake camp,

just south of the Oregon border in a desert wilderness.

 

The camp, built for 16,000 people,

opened five weeks later.

 

Photograph: Clem Albers

National Archives and Records Administration

 

A Lesson From the 1940s:

‘America Is Capable of Being Un-American’

By James Estrin        NYT        Feb. 23, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/
a-lesson-from-the-1940s-america-is-capable-of-being-un-american/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall view of the barracks

at Heart Mountain Relocation Camp

for Japanese Americans.

 

Location: WY, US

 

Date taken: 1942

 

Photographer: Myron Davis

 

Life Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dust storm at Manzanar War Relocation Authority Centre,

1942.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

 

Dorothea Lange:

Politics of Seeing at Barbican Centre

G

Tue 19 Jun 2018    08.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2018/jun/19/
dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing-at-barbican-centre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California,

July 2, 1942.

 

Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry

at the War Relocation Authority center.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

 

1999 digital print.

Records of the War Relocation Authority.

(210-G-C695)

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/1930-census-photos/photos-2.html

 

Picturing the Century:

One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives

Eight Portfolios from Part II

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/1930-census-photos/photos-2.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese American soldiers,

visiting their familes

while on leave from European combat duty,

stand honor guard beside coffin

of Japanese American WWI veteran Clarence Uno

who died while interned

at relocation center for Americans of Japanese descent.

 

Location: Heart Mountain, WY, US

 

Date taken: 1943

 

Photograph: Hansel Mieth

 

Life Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A store owned by a Japanese-American

who was sent to an internment camp in Oakland, Calif.

 

The store had been closed the day

after the Pearl Harbor attack.

 

Photograph: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

 

Following Dorothea Lange’s Notebooks

The Californian photographer

known for her images of the Great Depression

is a guide to the complexity of the present.

The New York Times

Feb. 29, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/
opinion/dorothea-lange-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aiko Louise Yoshinaga    1924-2018

 

a Japanese-American

whose tenacious

archival research

persuaded Congress

to approve reparations

for her fellow inmates

of World War II

internment camps

and an official apology

to them

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/
obituaries/aiko-herzig-yoshinaga-japanese-americans-internment-relocation-dies-at-93.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/
obituaries/aiko-herzig-yoshinaga-japanese-americans-internment-relocation-
dies-at-93.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yuri Kochiyama   1921-2014

 

 born Mary Yuriko Nakahara

 

civil rights activist

who formed

an unlikely friendship

with Malcolm X

when he was still promoting

black nationalism

and later cradled

his head in her hands

as he lay dying

from gunshot wounds

in 1965

 

(...)

 

Mrs. Kochiyama,

the child of Japanese immigrants

who settled

in Southern California,

knew discrimination well

by the time

she was a young woman.

 

During World War II

she spent two years

in an internment camp

for Japanese-Americans

in Arkansas,

a searing experience

that also exposed her

to the racism

of the Jim Crow South.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/us/
yuri-kochiyama-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-93.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/us/
yuri-kochiyama-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-93.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

on Dec. 7, 1941,

the United States government

forced 120,000 Japanese-Americans

on the West Coast out of their homes

and into internment camps

for the duration of the war.

 

(...)

 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

signed an executive order

in February 1942

[ On Feb. 19, 1942 ]

that made the relocation possible

by declaring certain parts of the West

to be military zones

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/
bob-fletcher-dies-at-101-saved-farms-of-interned-japanese-americans.html

 

 

https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/
japanese-internment.html 

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/manz/

https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/38/japanese-american-internment/ 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/japanese-american-internment/

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/
arts/hayakawa-hibi-okubo-japanese-art-exhibit.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/15/
1149347438/japanese-internment-ireicho-camps-world-war-ii

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/
1077276293/george-takei-got-reparations-
he-says-they-strengthen-the-integrity-of-america

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/
magazine/japanese-internment-end-wwii-trailer-parks.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/
magazine/little-tokyo-bunkado-los-angeles-japanese.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/
820181127/the-unlikely-story-
behind-japanese-americans-campaign-for-reparations

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/
807762997/in-an-internment-camp-maggie-the-magpie-lifted-spirits

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/
807428171/california-lawmakers-expected-to-apologize-
for-u-s-internment-of-japanese-americ

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/
t-magazine/japanese-american-novel.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/
arts/television/the-terror-george-takei.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/
742558996/george-takei-recalls-
time-in-an-american-internment-camp-in-they-called-us-enemy

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/26/
636107892/some-japanese-americans-wrongfully-imprisoned-during-wwii-
oppose-census-question

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/
obituaries/aiko-herzig-yoshinaga-japanese-americans-internment-relocation-
dies-at-93.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/
opinion/when-america-incarcerated-my-family.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=HdphFBNfQG4 - NYT - 22 June 2018

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/06/
multimedia/returning-to-manzanar.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/06/20/
621972727/for-some-japanese-americans-border-separations-are-deja-vu

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/
100000005024375/japanese-internment-tule-lake-360-video.html - May 2017

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/29/
485574562/walking-in-their-footsteps-at-a-former-japanese-internment-camp

 

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/
a-lesson-from-the-1940s-america-is-capable-of-being-un-american/

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/21/
516277507/the-other-wwii-american-internment-atrocity

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/19/
515822019/farming-behind-barbed-wire-japanese-americans-remember-wwii-incarceration

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/
516115506/75-years-later-americans-still-bear-scars-of-internment-order

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/
515563775/couple-moves-on-from-silence-about-time-in-japanese-internment-camps

 

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
rarely-seen-photos-japanese-internment-dorothea-lange

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/30/
512488821/its-fred-korematsu-day-celebrating-a-foe-of-u-s-internment-camps

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/
opinion/1942-all-over-again.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment

 

 

 

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/
japanese-americans-imprisoned-but-unbowed-during-world-war-two/

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/09/
455337926/george-takei-debuts-on-broadway-in-allegiance

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/
bob-fletcher-dies-at-101-saved-farms-of-interned-japanese-americans.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi    1918-2011

 

Gordon Hirabayashi

was imprisoned for defying

the federal government’s

internment

of Japanese-Americans

during World War II

but was vindicated

four decades later

when his conviction

was overturned

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/us/
gordon-hirabayashi-wwii-internment-opponent-dies-at-93.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/us/
gordon-hirabayashi-wwii-internment-opponent-dies-at-93.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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