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Asian American and Pacific Islander studies resources for the classroom
All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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Combined map of Temporary Detention Centers, War Relocation Authority Camps, and Areas Where Japanese Americans Could Not Live Freely.
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Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are filling straw ticks for mattresses upon arrival
The full caption for this photograph reads: Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are filling straw ticks for mattresses upon arrival at this War Relocation Authority center.
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Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California
The full caption for this photograph reads: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A typical interior scene in one of the barrack apartments at this center. Note the cloth partition which lends a small amount of privacy.
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Men working in weeding field at Tule Lake Segregation Center
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Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
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Nisei soldiers standing at attention
Original caption: Two Color guards and color bearers of the Japanese-American 442nd Combat Team, stand at attention while their citations are read. They are standing on ground, in the Bruyeres Area, France, where many of their comrades fell. 12 November 1944.
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Japanese American Responses to Incarceration
Densho historical video of the Japanese American responses to the World War II incarceration. Learn more at www.densho.org. Funding for this video was provided, in part, by an award from 4Culture, and by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.
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Returning Seattle family’s garage vandalized
This photo, from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, 1945, was captioned: “The Nagaishi family returned to find their property vandalized.”
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President Carter signing legislation
Men standing behind President Jimmy Carter in White House, signing of Commission of Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens Act into law. Unknown, Clifford Uyeda, Ted Stevens, Daniel Inouye, Ron Ikejiri, Barbara Ikejiri, Norm Mineta, Spark Matsunaga, George Danielson. President Carter seated. photo front and back. Signed by George Danielson, Congressman from California.
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Redress March, August 1989
Matsuda, Gann. Redress March. Photograph. August, 1989. Los Angeles, California. Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (formerly the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations).
