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Feb. 19 Japanese-American Internment Day of RemembranceRecalling the seeds and impact of America's WWII concentration camps on the anniversary of EO 9066EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry, but this section is being remodeled after our move to a new server since last year's Day of Remembrance. Only a small sampling of the archived features will be available here while we're renovating, but we've also added some more recent features from the past year.
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What Do Other Villagers Think?“An event like the WWII internment of civilians could never happen today. It is impossible even during wartime.” Agree - 11.54% “We must surrender some civil liberties and privacy to improve national security.” Agree - 61.54% |
Village Dialogue: Reparations for War, Slavery, and Internment
By S. D. Ikeda, Asian-American Village
Response to reader's letter on 'The Art of Apology' article and anger
over reparations
Resistance Revisited: Review of Tule Lake by Edward Miyakawa
By Harvey Dong, Eastwind
Books of Berkeley
Secret Asian
Man's: Wild on Manzanar
By Tak Toyoshima, AAV Artist-in-Residence
Cartoon: A spring break special report from the S.A.M. archives
Review: Internment
Books for Kids
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
Titles that sensitively broach tough themes of discrimination and
friendship in wartime
Teaching about Japanese-American Internment
Gary Mukai, ERIC Digests
Originally ran in our ERIC APA Issues in Education September readings
series
Of Military "Necessities"
By Phil Tajitsu Nash, Contributing Writer
Phil Tajitsu Nash on the "other internment lesson": How a government
molds public opinion
For Asian Americans, a War on Two Fronts
By S. D. Ikeda, Asian-American Village
APAs react to distant and not-so-distant historical lessons
Novelist Explores a "Birthright" Issue
By Sam Cacas, Contributing Editor
Marnie Mueller's The Climate of the Country
Archives: "Is the Internment Finally ‘Over’?"
By Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Kate Motoyama, Tom Nakayama
On the anniversary of Exec. Order 9066, the ten-year period of
government reparations to J-A internees has ended, at last bringing
resolution to this dreary chapter of U.S. history. Or has it? Three
Japanese Americans share their thoughts.
The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami: June 5, 1942
Edited by Claire Gorfinkel
Excerpt from a lost diary of an Issei woman during her WWII
evacuation--rediscovered and published posthumously after 50 years.
Archives: Day of Remembrance, Year of Forgetting
By Stewart David Ikeda, Editor
Editorial: February 2000's Day of Remembrance
Archives: 1999 Day of Remembrance
Features 1999: Redress Office, Latin American Cases, Come to an End;
Remembering Fred Korematsu; California Passes Honda Bill For Civil
Liberties Education; more.
Japanese
American Internment Timeline
Asian-American Village Staff
From our 2001 DoR edition
Executive Order No. 9066
Government Sources
Text of EO 9066, signed by FDR on Feb. 19, 1942, allowing the mass
removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast
Michi Weglyn Obituary
By Phil Tajitsu Nash
Remembering the "Rosa Parks of the Japanese American Redress Movement"
Day of
Remembrance - Documents
Government Sources
Evacuation poster, President Clinton's apology letter, and other related
public documents
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