Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 6/10/2008
Students will learn about the 25,000 Japanese Americans who served in U.S. military units during World War II. 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 tell the stories of the military service and sacrifice of these brave men as well as the irony that they were fighting to preserve the world's freedom while their families were imprisoned. Their combat record aided the post-war acceptance of Japanese Americans in American society and helped many people to recognize the injustice of wartime internment. Oral history transcripts are available in the subsections Soldier's Life, Military Intelligence and Translation, and Ironies of Service.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
The individual identified in Japanese characters, here is, Michibiku Ozamoto, or, in Englis...
military history, racism, Asian American, World War II, world war 2, Asian Pacific American, WW2, WWII, Asian American Heritage Month, Second World War, Asian Pacific American Heritage month, Asian, military, civil rights, APA, May, APA Heritage Month, Constitution, citizenship, segregation
Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps ...
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