Japanese American internment: Media
United States history
Videos
How life changed for Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor
Sam Mihara and his family were forced into a Japanese American incarceration camp...
How Japanese Americans were forced from their homes in the 1940s
Forced to sell property before being “evacuated” into prison camps, many Japanese...
Surviving Japanese American incarceration during World War II
Sam Mihara and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese American incarceration camp...
What life was like in a Japanese American incarceration camp
Japanese American prison camp Heart Mountain was the size of a small city.
Living without medical care in Japanese American internment camps
Without access to specialized care, Sam Mihara's father went blind while imprisoned...
Japanese American internment: Life after the prison camps
The prison camps were closed—but many Japanese Americans no longer had homes to return...
The political history of the term “Asian American”
The first known use has been traced to a student activist group in 1968.
Images
Japanese American internment camps
Map showing the extent of the exclusion zone and the locations of the internment...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Dorothea Lange: the Mochida family ready for relocation
The Mochida family before their relocation to an internment camp for Japanese Americans;...
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ID: 537505)
Dorothea Lange: photograph of a store owner's response to anti-Japanese sentiment
A store owner's response to anti-Japanese sentiment in the wake of the Pearl Harbor...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Japanese American internment: removal
Removal of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles to internment camps, 1942.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USF34-072313-D)
Japanese American internment
Japanese Americans being relocated to detention camps in California, 1942.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Japanese American internment: children
Japanese American children being relocated to internment camps, 1942.
Russell Lee—FSA/OWI/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USF33-013288-M1)
Japanese American internment: children
Japanese American child being relocated with his parents to an internment camp in...
OWI/FSA/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; photograph, Russell Lee (reproduction no. LC-USF33-013290-M1)
Japanese American internment: dispossession
Restaurant “under new management” as a result of the U.S. government's relocation...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Dorothea Lange, photographer
Ansel Adams: photo of Manzanar War Relocation Center
Sign marking the entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, near Lone Pine,...
Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-ppprs-00226 DLC)
Manzanar War Relocation Center
Manzanar War Relocation Center near Lone Pine, California; photograph by Ansel Adams,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-ppprs-00229)
Japanese American detention camp band
The Norakuro band, led by Roy Matsunaga (right), at Minidoka Relocation Center, 1943....
Minidoka National Historic Site/NPS/Records of the War Relocation Authority, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Japanese American internment: daily life
High-school students cleaning and raking between classroom buildings at the Minidoka...
Records of the War Relocation Authority, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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