The internment of Japanese Americans on US soil during the Second World War is regarded as one of the most despicable violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.
Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day ...
including the Congressional Exclusionary Act restricting immigration based on race and the Japanese American Internment during WWII. Our children should not be placed in any position where their ...
Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment ...
Julie Otsuka’s debut novel When the Emperor was Divine tells the story of a Japanese American family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. In five concise chapters, Otsuka presents ...
Japanese-American World War II internees are often ... represents a more complete picture of what happened during World War II and how resistance also formed an important dimension of the rights ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” ...
To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration ... treatment that had only intensified during the war, to the point of terrorism.
An art installation in Nihonmachi Alley commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was smeared with black ink over the weekend.
The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande will offer a special presentation Jan. 31 by historian Jim Gregory, ...