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"War Relocation Authority" Concentration Camps

Heart Mountain, Wyoming​

Amache, Colorado

Poston, Arizona

Tule Lake, California

Rohwer, Arkansas

Minidoka, Idaho

Manzanar, California

Topaz, Utah

Jerome, Arkansas (from arkansasheritage.com, no official website)

Gila River, Arizona (from densho.org, no official website)

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Museums and Nonprofits

Japanese American National Museum (JANM)​

Densho: Preserving Japanese American stories of the past for generations of tomorrow

The National World War II Museum - New Orleans: Pearl Harbor
The National World War II Museum - New Orleans: The 442nd Regiment
Nisei Veterans Legacy

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Personal Experiences

BBC Interview with George George Takei, Japanese-American actor, author, and activist 

Japanese American Baseball History Project

Good Morning America: Preserving Family History with Caitlyn Oiye Coon

Biography article on surviving the camps: multiple perspectives with photo gallery

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Scholarly Work

Examining the Scope of Racial Trauma, Nagata, Kim, Wu (National Library of Medicine)

Play it Again, Uncle Sam, A.W. Tashima, federal judge 

A Commander's Power...Justice Jackson's Korematsu Dissent, J. Barrett, law professor

The Japanese Experience in Virginia, 1900s-1950s: Jim Crow to Internment, E. T. Ito
Words Can Lie or Clarify: Terminology of the World War Two Incarceration of Japanese Americans Aiko Herzig- Yoshinaga
 

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Digital Resources

Heart Mountain Digital Archives

Library of Congress
National Park Service: List of Internment Camps
U.S. Army Center of Military History: 100th Infantry Battalion
How a Japanese American Regiment Rescued WWII’s ‘Lost Battalion’ - History
How Japanese American Incarceration Was Entangled With Indigenous Dispossession by CBS
The Liberation of Dacahu - Nisei Veterans Legacy
Landmark Case: Korematsu v. The United States

 

Music, Books, Shows, and Other Media

OMOIYARI, A Song Film by Kishi Bashi

Defining Courage, a journey into the legacy of the Nisei soldier

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Farewell to Manzanar (film)

When Can We Go Back to America? (nonfiction), S. Kamei, N. Mineta

They Called Us Enemy (graphic novel), George Takei

Displacement (graphic novel), by Kiku Hughes

We Hereby Refuse (graphic novel), by F. Abe, T. Nimura, M. Sasaki, R. Ishikawa, 

Those Who Helped Us (graphic novel), K. Mochizuki, K. Hughes

Ruth Asawa: A Sculpting Life (picture book), J. Schoettler, T. Wagoner

Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey (picture book), K. Yamasaki

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Important Figures

Densho: Toyo Miyatake

Dorothea Lange

Ansel Adams

Photos: 3 Very Different Views Of Japanese Internment- NPR News

Frank Harry Ono

Daniel Inouye
Mitsuye Endo
Gordon Hibarayashi
Fred Korematsu
 

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