How can we challenge prejudice and discrimination in our own communities and institutions?

Aug 10, 1988 ... ... Japanese ancestry living in the United States were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in makeshift internment camps. This action ... During WWII, 120000 Japanese-Americans were forced into camps, a government action that still haunts victims and their descendants. Jun 24, 2016 ... Families of Japanese ancestry were sent to hastily built “relocation” camps further inland. They had committed no crimes. Almost 2/3 of them were American ... Mar 5, 2017 ... They were intended to contain Japanese Americans while the sturdier and more permanent concentration camps in Tule Lake, California; Poston ... Our guiding principles are to preserve the nearby Topaz incarceration site and its World War II history; to interpret the impact of Topaz on the Japanese ... In spite of government claims of searching for places with "climates suitable for people," most camps were situated in barren, desolate locations notable for ... Between 1942 and 1945, more than 8,000 Japanese Americans were interned ... The World War II Japanese American Internment Museum at McGehee focuses on the camps ... In April 1942, the Japanese army forced over 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war to make an arduous march. In the burning sun, they were made to ... Dec 17, 2019 ... ... did take the chest of drawers Papa had made along with one army blanket.” Japanese internment camp. At the Granada Relocation Center in ... Just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, approximately 1,291 Japanese. American community and religious leaders were arrested by ...