During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated — including families in Fresno. Speakers Tom Ikeda and author Daniel James Brown will reflect on resilience, resistance, and why ...
“They offered to give me things to the point of embarrassment, but not to sell them,” Allen Hendershott Eaton wrote in Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps ...
An upcoming film showcase will observe the lives of the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were forcibly ...
That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ and grandparents’ experiences in World War II internment camps. With photos from her family and the National Archives, the ...
Baseball was a way of life in the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The United States government stripped the Americans who lived in these camps of their liberties, but ...
WASHINGTON - A former World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans is now a step closer to becoming a national historic site eligible for additional preservation assistance. The U.S. Senate ...
Long before World War II, the U.S. rounded up Native Americans and forced them onto reservations. After the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941, the U.S. rounded up another minority population, Japanese ...