Monroe County history: Relocated Japanese Americans worked in Monroe
Greening Nursery provided jobs and housing for the first wave of the War Relocation Authority’s Japanese Evacuation initiatives during World War II.
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Greening Nursery provided jobs and housing for the first wave of the War Relocation Authority’s Japanese Evacuation initiatives during World War II.
Michaela Rife writes about using the Chiura Obata to create an assignment as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop.
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the presidential order that led to the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II. One of those camps was just south of the Oregon border in Newell, California. It was called the Tule Lake Segregation Center. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke with Hiroshi Shimizu who was interned there with his family.
The Gila River and Poston war relocation centers were two of the largest Japanese American incarceration centers in the nation during World War II.
Students are gaining a new understanding of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.