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Issei Farmers in Gardena
In 1940, nearly two-thirds of all Japanese Americans living in Pacific Coast states, like those pictured here in Gardena, California, and Sumner, Washington, were involved in agricultural work or in the sale and transport of crops.
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Muslim Travel Ban Protest
Japanese Americans protesting at the Los Angeles International Airport against the Trump administration’s ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries.
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Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
Documents uncovered in the 1980s by researcher Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga and attorney Peter Irons show that during World War II, a Department of Justice Attorney, Edward Ennis, learned that claims made by General John DeWitt to justify the mass removal of Japanese Americans were untrue.
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Gordon Hirabayashi, Min Yasui, and Fred Korematsu
Forty years after the US Supreme Court ruled against Gordon Hirabayashi, Min Yasui, and Fred Korematsu, pictured here, federal judges in the 1980s overturned their criminal convictions. All three men subsequently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor for civilians in the US.
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Japanese American Children in a Trailer Park
These children lived in a Burbank, California trailer park that served as temporary housing in 1946 for Japanese Americans who returned to Southern California after incarceration in concentration camps.
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The Tanforan Assembly Center Communal Bathroom
This drawing by artist Miné Okubo documents a communal bathroom at the Tanforan Assembly Center. Initially, no partitions separated toilets in camp latrines. This lack of privacy upset people.
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American Yellow Book Cover
In this excerpt from his memoir, American Yellow, George Omi recounts his uncle leaving his beloved dog at a San Francisco beach because he could not take the dog with him to the concentration camp.
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“Junkshop Man Took Our Icebox Away”
Japanese Americans on the West Coast had to sell most of their possessions at rock-bottom prices to unscrupulous buyers. This painting, “Junkshop Man Took Our Icebox Away,” by Henry Sugimoto, captures the emotions of a mother and daughter who must get rid of the family’s belongings.
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Chol Soo Lee Released
Chol Soo Lee beams at his supporters in Stockton, California, upon being released from prison on March 28, 1983.
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Punjabi Mexican Dinner
Dinner at the Phoenix, Arizona home of Rosa and Jiwan Singh in 1951.
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