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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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Freedom Train
Jimmy Murakami’s final painting was called ‘Freedom Train’ it showed the Murakami family huddled together on a train headed to LA carrying the same suitcases they had entered Tule Lake with four years earlier, they also had the ashes of Jimmy’s sister Sumiko
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Japanese-American children at the Crystal City Internment Camp in the ’40s
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The so-called “Loyalty Questionnaire”
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Mitsuye Endo
Mitsuye Endo, an American citizen, was relocated to Tule Lake Relocation Center and then at Topaz Relocation Center. In 1944, attorneys argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on her behalf. The court rules that the War Relocation Authority may have to detain other classes of citizens, but it has no authority to subject citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure.
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Fred T. Korematsu
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Gordon Hirabayashi and Bill Schmoe, 1941
Hirabayashi met the Schmoe family when Floyd Schmoe of the American Friends Service Committee supported Hirabayashi’s resistance to the curfew and exclusion laws for Japanese Americans. Schmoe worked actively to assist Japanese Americans who had been evacuated, and later traveled to Hiroshima to help survivors of the atomic bomb. In this photograph, Hirabayashi is pictured with Schmoe’s son, Bill.
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63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee at a court hearing in Cheyenne, Wyo
Photograph of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee. Photograph titled: “63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee at a court hearing in Cheyenne, Wyo., having been charged with resisting the draft.”
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Nisei students at Swarthmore
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Nisei farm workers in Montana
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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Original caption: Japanese-American troops climb into a truck as they prepare to move their bivouac area. 2nd Battalion, 442nd Combat Team, Chambois Sector. France
