Japanese American Internment During World War II Maine West High School Library Resource Center Des Plaines, IL Created by G. Haan, librarian April 2006 With contributions by: Lisa Gonzalez, librarian, Notre Dame H.S., Salinas, CA & Naomi Mellendorf, librarian, Maine South H. S.
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Jackdaw - Pictures and facsimiles in LRC files Japanese-American Internment: Life in the Camps
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	Highlighted Site: Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project and Featured Section: Sites of Shame Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.
Ansel Adam’s Photographs of Manzanar Asian America Camp Harmony near Seattle, Washington Children of the Camps: The Japanese American WWII Internment Camp Experience Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII Japanese American Relocation Sites: National Park Service (NPS) Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp Executive Order 9066 Resulting in the Relocation of the Japanese Freedom for Some: The Japanese American Internment Experience from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Granada] Camp Amache in Colorado Granada Japanese Relocation Center Site Internment of San Francisco Japanese - 1942 The Japanese-American Experience Japanese American Internment Camps from the University of Utah Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive Top				Civilian Exclusion Order #5
Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History The Life and Work of George Hoshida – internment camp detainee who documented the camps Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story and links to many other sites Manzanar National Historic Site Home Page A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution Suffering Under A Great Injustice Utah Education Network- Japanese Internment Camps The War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II Top HHousingousing Housing Picture Credits “Ouster of All Japs…” http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/23-0309a.gif Jackdaw http://www.jackdaw.com “Civilian Exclusion Order #5 ” http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/23-0311a.gif “Housing” left http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/23-0307a.gif “Housing” right http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamsp.html Top
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