Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 6/10/2008
Students will learn how the attack on Pearl Harbor led to Executive Order 9066, which was the first step in a program that uprooted Japanese Americans from their West Coast communities and placed them under armed guard for up to four years. This section of A More Perfect Union, an online exhibition, uses artifacts from the Museum's collections, primary source documents, photographs and oral histories to discuss the early stages of this traumatic period, from the initial reactions and policies brought about by the attack on Pearl Harbor to the temporary assembly centers that were the first stop for Japanese American internees. Oral history transcripts are available in each of the subsections of this website.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
The individual identified in Japanese characters, here is, Michibiku Ozamoto, or, in Englis...
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Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps ...
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