Children In Japanese American Confinement Camps

Author : Clara MacCarald
Publisher : Focus Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781635179767
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children in Japanese American Confinement Camps written by Clara MacCarald and published by Focus Readers. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents true accounts of children forced to live in Japanese American confinement camps. Personal narratives, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823441512
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemy Child written by Andrea Warren and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1941 and ten-year-old Norman Mineta is a carefree fourth grader in San Jose, California, who loves baseball, hot dogs, and Cub Scouts. But when Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor, Norm's world is turned upside down. Corecipient of The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award A Horn Book Best Book of the Year One by one, things that he and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. In a matter of months they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind. At the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming, Norm and his family live in one room in a tar paper barracks with no running water. There are lines for the communal bathroom, lines for the mess hall, and they live behind barbed wire and under the scrutiny of armed guards in watchtowers. Meticulously researched and informed by extensive interviews with Mineta himself, Enemy Child sheds light on a little-known subject of American history. Andrea Warren covers the history of early Asian immigration to the United States and provides historical context on the U.S. government's decision to imprison Japanese Americans alongside a deeply personal account of the sobering effects of that policy. Warren takes readers from sunny California to an isolated wartime prison camp and finally to the halls of Congress to tell the true story of a boy who rose from "enemy child" to a distinguished American statesman. Mineta was the first Asian mayor of a major city (San Jose) and was elected ten times to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked tirelessly to pass legislation, including the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. He also served as Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Transportation. He has had requests by other authors to write his biography, but this is the first time he has said yes because he wanted young readers to know the story of America's internment camps. Enemy Child includes more than ninety photos, many provided by Norm himself, chronicling his family history and his life. Extensive backmatter includes an Afterword, bibliography, research notes, and multimedia recommendations for further information on this important topic. A California Reading Association Eureka! Nonfiction Gold Award Winner Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award’s Children’s Reading Round Table Award for Children’s Nonfiction A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title A Junior Library Guild Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit

Author : Clara MacCarald
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1641851791
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children in Japanese American Confinement Camps written by Clara MacCarald and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents true accounts of children forced to live in Japanese American confinement camps. Personal narratives, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.

Author : Laura Sullivan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 150261782X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life As a Child in a Japanese Internment Camp written by Laura Sullivan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was a difficult, frightening time for many people around the globe. In the United States, difficulties arose after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. People became suspicious of Japanese Americans living in the United States. As a result, many Japanese Americans were put into internment camps

Author : Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299957
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese American Incarceration written by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation. Following Franklin Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion of potentially dangerous groups from military zones along the West Coast, the federal government placed Japanese Americans in makeshift prisons throughout the country. In addition to working on day-to-day operations of the camps, Japanese Americans were coerced into harvesting crops, digging irrigation ditches, paving roads, and building barracks for little to no compensation and often at the behest of privately run businesses—all in the name of national security. How did the U.S. government use incarceration to address labor demands during World War II, and how did imprisoned Japanese Americans respond to the stripping of not only their civil rights, but their labor rights as well? Using a variety of archives and collected oral histories, Japanese American Incarceration uncovers the startling answers to these questions. Stephanie Hinnershitz's timely study connects the government's exploitation of imprisoned Japanese Americans to the history of prison labor in the United States.

Author : Connie Goldsmith
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1728411645
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiyo Sato written by Connie Goldsmith and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our camp, they tell us, is now to be called a 'relocation center' and not a 'concentration camp.' We are internees, not prisoners. Here's the truth: I am now a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights. I am a prisoner in a concentration camp in my own country. I sleep on a canvas cot under which is a suitcase with my life's belongings: a change of clothes, underwear, a notebook and pencil. Why?"—Kiyo Sato In 1941 Kiyo Sato and her eight younger siblings lived with their parents on a small farm near Sacramento, California, where they grew strawberries, nuts, and other crops. Kiyo had started college the year before when she was eighteen, and her eldest brother, Seiji, would soon join the US Army. The younger children attended school and worked on the farm after class and on Saturday. On Sunday, they went to church. The Satos were an ordinary American family. Until they weren't. On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, US president Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan and the United States officially entered World War II. Soon after, in February and March 1942, Roosevelt signed two executive orders which paved the way for the military to round up all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast and incarcerate them in isolated internment camps for the duration of the war. Kiyo and her family were among the nearly 120,000 internees. In this moving account, Sato and Goldsmith tell the story of the internment years, describing why the internment happened and how it impacted Kiyo and her family. They also discuss the ways in which Kiyo has used her experience to educate other Americans about their history, to promote inclusion, and to fight against similar injustices. Hers is a powerful, relevant, and inspiring story to tell on the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Author : Michael O Tunnell
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623346754
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children of Topaz written by Michael O Tunnell and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II, The Children of Topaz gives a detailed portrait of daily life in the camps where Japanese-Americans were taken during the war. There are many primary source documents including the children’s drawings, maps of the camp, and photographs depicting the harsh, wartime attitudes toward these families.

Author : United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942 written by United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Komei Dempster
Publisher : Kearny Street Workshop Press
ISBN 13 : 9780970550408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Our Side of the Fence written by Brian Komei Dempster and published by Kearny Street Workshop Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Our Side of the Fence contains the first-person accounts of eleven former internees who recall their memories of youth in America's concentration camps. This collection traces each author's personal journey through war, giving voice to a history that has been silenced. This book also offers lesson plans for use by educators and students and for internees who wish to tell their own stories.

Author : Mako Nakagawa
Publisher : NewSage Press
ISBN 13 : 9780939165742
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Prisoner in American Concentration Camps written by Mako Nakagawa and published by NewSage Press. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a Japanese American girl imprisoned in U.S. camps during WW II and her insights as an adult making sense of this grave injustice.