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Language Arts Resources
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Historical fiction2009 by JamieFordA novel about the love and friendship between Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy, and Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American girl, experiencing internment during World War II.
Video Resources
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie FordJamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet LocationsDavid Suzuki - Force of Nature Part 1/5
In-House Resources
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Audiobook available on WHS iPodseBook available on WHS KindlesCompanion Titles available at WHS
NonFiction
- Korematsu v. United States : Japanese-American internment camps
- by Karen Alonso
- Ref 340 Alo
- Profiles the case of Fred Korematsu, who sought compensation from the American government for his time spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II
- Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of JapaneseAmerican experience during and after the World War II internment
- by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
- 921 Hou
- A Japanese-American family during W.W. II attempt to survive in a detention camp
- Desert exile : the uprooting of a JapaneseAmerican family
- by Yoshiko Uchida
- 921 Uch
- A first-person story telling of the U.S. internment of persons ofJapanese ancestry during World War II
- Voices from the camps : internment of JapaneseAmericans during World War II
- by Larry Dane Brimner
- Japanese Americans tell of their experiences during the evacuation to internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Citizen 13660 ;drawings & text by Miné Okubo 940.54 OkuA Japanese artist illustrates and narrates her experiences in theJapanese internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanesedescent were held in the U.S. during World War II
- The invisible thread : [an autobiography]
- by Yoshiko Uchida
- 921 Uch
- Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation JapaneseAmerican, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II
Fiction
- Sylvia and Aki;
- by Winifred Conkling
- FIC Con
- At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation
- When the emperor was divine : a novel
- by Julie Otsuka
- FIC Ots
- A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II
- Journey to Topaz; a story of the Japansese-american evacuation
- by Yoshiko Uchida
- FIC Uch
- After Pearl Harbor, a Japanese-American family must go to a camp in Utah
- Korematsu v. United States : Japanese-American internment camps
Online Resources
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Museum Resources
PowerPoint Presentations showing the evacuation of San Francisco, the Tanforan Assembly Center and the Manzanar Relocation Center are available from the Museum. The San Francisco Evacuation presentation contains 20 photographs, with original WRA captions, taken by famed photographer Dorothea Lange in early 1942. Another presentation, about the infamous Tanforan Assembly Center, closely examines the horse stalls used to house San Francisco internees - as well as the primitive living conditions.
Also available are 20 views of the infamous Manzanar Relocation Center in California's High Desert. These photographs include arrival at the camp, internees moving in, and general views of this desolate, dusty, inhumane, location. WRA photographers Clem Albers and Dorothea Lange shot the photographs between April and July 1942.
The Decision to Evacuate the Japanese from the Pacific Coast, by Stetson Conn
"S.F. Clear of all But 6 Sick Japanese" from the San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 1942.
Chronology of Japanese Internment - 1942
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry - April 1, 1942
Chronology of San Francisco War Events
Dorothea Lange's Photographs of the San Francisco Japanese Evacuation - 1942
Gila River Relocation Camp - 1942
"San Francisco Faces West, The City in Wartime," by John Dos Passos - 1944Other Important Online Resources
Relocation of Japanese-Americans, by the War Relocation Authority - 1942
Gen. DeWitt's Final Report on the Evacuation of the Japanese
National Park Service's Manzanar National Historic Site Home Page
WCCA Rules for Japanese Internees at Assembly Centers, From the University of Washington
Documents Relating to Bainbridge Island Evacuees from the University of Washington
Video Clips and Other Links
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Camp Harmony Exhibit: University of Washington
In the spring of 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Alaska, and sent to nearby temporary assembly centers. From there they were sent by trains to American-style concentration camps at remote inland sites where many people spent the remainder of the war. This exhibit tells the story of Seattle's Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp Harmony."
- Overview
- Bainbridge Island
- Round-Up to the Camp
- The Camp: Administration & The Camp: Physical Layout
- Civil Liberties
- Children: Miss Evanson's Class
- Students: Mrs. Willis's Class
- The Essentials: Housing & Food
- The Rhythm of Life: Work, School and Play
- The Cycle of Life: Birth, Marriage & Death
- The Move to Minidoka
San Francisco News Articles - March and April 1942
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Week of Monday, March 2, 1942
Concentration Camps for Japanese Wanted by Western Governors - March 2, 1942
General DeWitt Announces Military Exclusion Zones - March 3, 1942
Greatest Forced Migration in American History to Begin - March 4, 1942
Japanese Ban to Force Farm Adjustments - March 4, 1942
Radio Tokio Denounces Japanese Internment - March 5, 1942
Manzanar May House Interned Japanese - March 5, 1942
Owens Valley Haunted by Hopes that Failed - March 5, 1942
Alien Order Hits U.C. Staff - March 5, 1942
Editorial: Their Best Way to Show Loyalty - March 6, 1942
Gov. Olson Wants All Japanese Removed - March 6, 1942
"All Packed Up and Ready to Go," S.F. News Editorial Cartoon - March 6, 1942
Gen. DeWitt Gives Assurances to Aliens - March 7, 1942
Week of Monday, March 9, 1942
Tolan Group Due to Report Alien Plans - March 9, 1942
"War Hits the Farm Lands," by John G. Brucato - March 9, 1942
Federal Reserve Bank to Aid Aliens - March 10, 1942
To the Editor: "Replace the Okies with Japanese" - March 10, 1942
Plea Made for `Loyal' Aliens - March 13, 1942
Week of Monday, March 16, 1942
Alien Order Removal Offices Set Up - March 16, 1942
Two Steps Speed Japanese Evacuation - March 17, 1942
FBI Rounds Up More Japanese - March 18, 1942
First Japanese Ready to Leave Coast - March 19, 1942
Week of Monday, March 23, 1942
Manzanar Arrival Soon for Interned L.A. Japanese - March 23, 1942
First Los Angeles Japanese Internees Go to Manzanar - March 24, 1942
New Curfew Rules for Enemy Aliens - March 24, 1942
Aliens Get One More Night Out - March 25, 1942
Aliens Must Go by Sunday or Army Will Freeze Them - March 26, 1942
New FBI Raids on Enemy Aliens - March 26, 1942
Calif. Japanese Send Funds to Aid Nippon War Chest - March 26, 1942
Bay Area Japanese Leaving Coast in Final Rush - March 27, 1942
Writer Guilty as Japanese Agent - March 27, 1942
Japanese Eviction Brings Threat of Crop Losses - March 28, 1942
Week of Monday, March 30, 1942
Dangerous Japanese Aliens Sent to Sharp Park Internment Camp - March 31, 1942
FBI Rounds Up Black Dragon Society Members - March 31, 1942
Editorial: Evacuations Show Loyalty - March 31, 1942
Week of Wednesday April 2, 1942
San Francisco Japanese to be Interned at Manzanar - April 2, 1942
State of California Suspends Japanese Employees - April 3, 1942
Tanforan Becomes Japanese Internment Center - April 3, 1942
Transfer of Japanese Farm Lands Continues - April 3, 1942
Tanforan New Japanese Assembly Center - April 4, 1942
Week of Monday, April 6, 1942
700 S.F. Japanese to Go Santa Anita Internment Camp - April 6, 1942
S.F. Japanese Exodus Starts - April 7, 1942
Goodbye! Write Soon! - April 7, 1942
"Behind the News"; Praise for the Army and Gen. DeWitt for Evacuation - April 7, 1942
Editorial: "Japanese Co-operate" - April 8, 1942
Editorial: "Well Done"; in Praise of Gen. DeWitt and the Army - April 10, 1942
1924 Warning on Japanese Infiltration Suppressed - April 11, 1942
Confabs Held on Future of `Little Tokio' - April 11, 1942
Week of Monday, April 13, 1942
Slum Danger in Japantown Under Study - April 13, 1942
Conditions at Alien Centers are Defended - April 13, 1942
To the Editor: Japanese Have Faith, by George Ishida - April 13, 1942
Japantown Slum Drive Growing - April 14, 1942
Japanese to Occupy Tract in Arizona - April 16, 1942
FBI Picks Up Three `Dangerous Aliens' - April 17, 1942
U.S. Aid Urged on "Little Tokio" - April 17, 1942
3000 More Japanese Go to Manzanar - April 18, 1942
"Behind the News"; Plight of Filipino-Japanese Women - April 18, 1942
Week of Monday, April 20, 1942
Evacuation Plan for L.A. Speeded - April 20, 1942
"Manzanar Nice Place – It Better Than Hollywood," by United Press – April 21, 1942
City to Clear Japantown Slums - April 21, 1942
"Food for Victory" from Seized Japanese Farms - April 21, 1942
"Behind the News"; Aliens Should Dispose of Contraband - April 24, 1942
Japantown Liquor Curb Urged - April 24, 1942
S.F. Japanese Register for Evacuation - April 24, 1942
Week of Monday, April 27, 1942
S.F. Japanese Register for Tanforan Camp - April 27, 1942
FBI Conducts New Raids on Enemy Aliens - April 28, 1942
San Francisco Japanese Sent to Tanforan Internment Camp - April 28, 1942
Japanese Evacuation from San Francisco Speeded Up - April 29, 1942
"Behind the News"; Japanese Won't be Welcomed Back - April 29, 1942
New Japanese Evacuation Order - April 30, 1942
