CREDITS

Content Manager - Indra Mungal

Producer - Mara Gahagan

Design - Fluent Studios

Associate Researcher - Michelle Cascio

Lesson Writers - Chizu Omori - Topics Education Group

Featured article in Civil Disobedience Action Plan: "Exiled American Refused Pardon" Ed McCullogh, Associated Press

Photographs from:
• National Archives and Records Administration courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Library of Congress

National Archives and Records Administration courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society

Fairground Barracks
Puyallup temporary detention camp, Washington.
1942 (Camp open between April 28 through September 12)
Hastily constructed barracks at the Puyallup fairgrounds.
Signal Corps photo, from the Library of Congress.
10617 - 14 vol. Set on Japanese evacuation.
Vol. 8, page 688.
9CA-42-2503-PSF S 217.
Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society.

Keep Moving Sign
Hollywood, California.
Circa 1920.
Anti-Japanese sign. Signs in window read "Japs Keep Out," and "Member of Hollywood Protective Association."
National Archives photo.
Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society.

Kids
Pinedale temporary detention camp, California
1942 (Camp open from May 7 through July 23, 1942.)
Two kids by the camp border and sign.
Library of Congress photo.
10617 - 14 vol. Set on Japanese evacuation.
Vol. 6, page 512.
9CA-42-2884-PSF
Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society.

Grocery
Oakland, California
1942
Sign on front of the Wanto Grocery Store.
Dorothea Lange, photographer.
National Archives
Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society.

Mess Line
Santa Ana temporary detention camp, California
April 6, 1942
Meal time at the camp.
Clem Albers, photographer.
National Archives photo.
210-G - B 400

Newspapers
San Francisco, California
February 27, 1942
San Francisco Examiner headline announcing the impending eviction of people of Japanese ancestry from the military zones on the west coast. The Hearst papers were among the most vocal in their denouncement of Japanese Americans.
Dorothea Lange, photographer.
National Archives.

Stuffing Beds
Poston detention camp, Arizona
May, 1942
Stuffing mattresses with straw.
National Archives.
210-GA - 142

Apology ceremony in Washington D.C.
Rick Rocamora, photographer

National Archives and Records Administration

Evacuation Order
National Archives photo no. 210-G-A39

High School at Camps
National Archives photo no. 210-G-B555

Newly Arrived Evacuees
National Archives photo no. 210-G-D92

Note Left by Japanese Storeowner
National Archives photo no. 210-G-A1

Sorting Baggage
National Archives photo no. 210-G-D87

Waiting for Trains, Bags Packed
National Archives photo no. 210-G-A92

Library of Congress

Closing Sign 2
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-072375-D DLC

Search of Baggage
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-072316-D DLC

Crowd Awaits Train
Library of Congress, LC -USF33-013291-M1 DLC

Goodbyes from the Train
Library of Congress, LC-USF33-013296-M1 DLC

Waiting for Registration
Library of Congress, LC-USF33-013299-M1 DLC

Japanese Registration
Library of Congress, LC-USF33-013300-M1 DLC

Mess Hall
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-072378-D DLC

Supper
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-073869-D DLC

Bag Lunches
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-073916-D DLC

Mess Hall 3
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-073636-D DLC

Mess Hall 2
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-073915-D DLC

Playing Basketball
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-073586-D DLC

Mobile Camp
Library of Congress, LC-USF34-073575-D DLC

The following photographs used by permission of Fluent Studios:

Photo of cheerleaders
Photo of spiral notebook
Photo of exam

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