The Importance of Speaking Out - Gene Akutsu
During World War II, Gene Akutsu was incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. [More...]
Feeling Ashamed of Japanese American Identity - May K. Sasaki
May K. Sasaki was a young child during World War II when she and her family were incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. [More...]
Thoughts from a Nisei after 9/11 - Joe Yasutake
During World War II, Joe Yasutake and his family lived in the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and the Crystal City internment camp, Texas. [More...]
A Cabinet Meeting the Day after 9/11 - Norman Mineta
Norman Mineta was the U.S. Secretary of Transportation during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. [More...]
Meeting Malcolm X - Yuri Kochiyama
Yuri Kochiyama, well-known civil rights activist, was incarcerated in the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. [More...]
Deciding to Resist the Curfew - Gordon Hirabayashi
During World War II, Gordon Hirabayashi challenged the curfew and removal orders being enforced against Japanese Americans on the West Coast. [More...]
Receiving Encouragement from Mother - Gordon Hirabayashi
During World War II, Gordon Hirabayashi challenged the curfew and removal orders being enforced against Japanese Americans on the West Coast. [More...]
Arrested For Resisting Mass Removal (audio clip) - Fred Korematsu
In 1942, Fred Korematsu decided to resist the removal orders being enforced against Japanese Americans on the West Coast. [More...]
Intentionally Getting Arrested (audio clip) - Minoru Yasui
In 1942, Minoru Yasui deliberately defied the curfew imposed upon Japanese Americans in Portland, Oregon, and was arrested. [More...]
The Trial of the Heart Mountain Draft Resisters - Frank Emi
Frank Emi was one of the leaders of the Fair Play Committee at the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, during World War II. [More...]
Oral History - Shigeko Sese Uno
Shigeko Sese Uno describes how her father worked his way from Japan through Mexico to the United States. [More...]
Exclusion Order posted at First and Front Streets directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from the first San Francisco section to be effected by the evacuation. [More...]
In response to the Army's Exclusion Order Number 20, residents of Japanese ancestry appear at Civil Control Station at 2031 Bush Street for registration. [More...]
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
Bannai, Lorraine K. Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War
Daniels, Roger. The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2013.
A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States
Hirabayashi, Gordon, with Janes A. Hirabayashi, and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Lyon, Cherstin. Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
A series of orders issued by Gen. John L. DeWitt as head of the Western Defense Command (WDC) directing the exclusion of "all persons of Japanese ancestry, including aliens and non-aliens" from designated areas on the West Coast. [More...]
"Assembly centers" were makeshift concentration camps providing temporary housing for about 92,000 people of Japanese ancestry uprooted under Executive Order 9066. [More...]
Challenger of World War II exclusion and confinement. Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu's (1919-2005) fight against the mass removal of Japanese Americans resulted in a landmark Supreme Court case concerning wartime civil liberties. [More...]
Gordon Hirabayashi's civil disobedience during World War II elevated him to a prominent place in American civil rights history and earned him posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. [More...]
Minoru "Min" Yasui (1916-86) was one of four Japanese Americans who fought the legality of exclusion and/or detention during World War II all the way to the Supreme Court. [More...]
Lincoln Seiichi Kanai / ex parte Kanai
As a social worker with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), Lincoln Kanai (1908-82) was a vocal advocate for Nikkei community needs and citizens' rights in the months following Pearl Harbor. [More...]
The Korematsu Institute (KI) promotes the importance of remembering one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in U.S. history, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, by bridging the Fred Korematsu story with various topics in history... [More...]
Densho Historical Overview Videos
Densho historical video of the post-World War II rebuilding of the Japanese American community. [More...]
Building History 3.0 was created to engage the public, especially young people, with the historic meaning of World War II Japanese American incarceration camps. [More...]
