Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 6/10/2008
Students will learn about the efforts of Japanese Americans to receive justice after their internment 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 discuss the court cases brought against the government, the formal apologies and efforts of redress by the government and the successes of members of the Japanese American community in post-war United States. Oral history transcripts are available in each subsection of this webpage.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
The individual identified in Japanese characters, here is, Michibiku Ozamoto, or, in Englis...
Asian Pacific American, Asian American Heritage Month, discrimination, Second World War, Asian Pacific American Heritage month, world war 2, APA, APA Heritage Month, World War II, civil rights, Asian American, WWII, WW2, May, Constitution, Asian, citizenship, racism, prejudice, segregation
Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps ...
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