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1: UPROOTED

1: UPROOTED

This program introduces the “We The People” series beginning with stories of the immigration of Japanese people to the U.S., their integration into American society, and the ramifications of the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Weeks later President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-American citizens […]

2: THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS

2: THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS

This program looks at what the process of the incarceration entailed for Japanese American families, living in the “Exclusion Area” of the West Coast of the United States. The United States Government sent these families east from the Assembly Centers in Washington, Oregon, and California to ten permanent incarceration camps […]

3: GO FOR BROKE!

3: GO FOR BROKE!

The gradual involvement of Japanese-American men and women in the US armed forces after Pearl Harbor is presented in this program. For some, their initial training in the Military Intelligence Unit (a secret language school) provided mostly unseen translators, interrogators, and code breakers for the war. When the war efforts […]

4: THE RETURN HOME

4: THE RETURN HOME

The bittersweet return of the Japanese American families, at the end of 1945, was back to what had previously been called “the exclusion area.” Their three main fears upon re-entry were: treatment of them as a foreign enemy, anxiety about their economic future, and that fire or police departments would […]

5: PEOPLE WHO HELPED

5: PEOPLE WHO HELPED

Viewers are introduced to Americans of all ages, races, ethnic backgrounds, and religious affiliations who responded to the needs of their Japanese American neighbors who were treated so unjustly and illegally by the US government. Humanitarian outreach from both large organizations and individuals included: living and teaching in incarceration camps, […]

6: RACISM & REDRESS

6: RACISM & REDRESS

This program begins with the ever present dilemma of racial exclusion in our country. The Civil Rights movement was to become the catalyst for the work on redress and monetary reparation to former Japanese internees. It was also the way used to force dealing with the issue publicly. The process was […]

7: COULD THIS HAPPEN AGAIN?*

7: COULD THIS HAPPEN AGAIN?*

The framers challenge, when they created our country’s constitution, was for the citizens of our country to continue the work of the constitution by constantly moving toward a more just and perfect union. Based on their ideals, the final program in the series focuses on three main areas. The first […]

PROGRAM OVERVIEW GUIDES

PROGRAM OVERVIEW GUIDES

This  seven part series was designed as thought provoking educational material for classroom and small group discussion: for the purpose of inspiring people to become informed and politically involved in decision making that effects our communities, and our country; for the opportunity for discussion between Americans with differing views. Link […]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

In addition to the following bibliography there are numerous excellent videos on the incarceration, not only regarding subjects and persons identified in the video series, but other important areas as well i.e., the Fred Korematsu case, the involuntary importation of Peruvian Japanese, propaganda films created by the United States on […]