Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 6/10/2008
Students will learn about the experience of Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants to the United States, through the use of artifacts from the Museum's collections, primary source documents, photographs, and oral histories. This section of the A More Perfect Union, an online exhibition, discusses how Japanese Immigrants to Hawaii and mainland United States faced severe racial prejudice and the restrictive laws that specifically limited the rights of Asian immigrants to own property and to become citizens. Oral history transcripts are available in the subsections Issei: First Generation and U.S. Mainland.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
The individual identified in Japanese characters, here is, Michibiku Ozamoto, or, in Englis...
citizenship, World War II, Second World War, Asian, May, racism, discrimination, civil rights, WWII, Asian American Heritage Month, Asian American, culture, WW2, Asian Pacific American, Asian Pacific American Heritage month, APA, world war 2, segregation, Constitution, APA Heritage Month
Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps ...
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