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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment ExperienceFilms on Demand (link below) is an online streaming video service for educational films. As a GRC student you have unlimited access from campus or from home.
During World War II, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned in relocation camps across the United States. This video clip details the Executive Order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that led to the internment of Japanese Americans as well as how the United States government used propaganda to influence public opinion.
Scenes of Japanese Americans being shipped away from their homes to camps throughout the western United States.
WWII: Barriers and Passes
AP Photo/ Dorothea Lange from Taylor, Alan, "World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans," The Atlantic, August 22, 2011.
This store owned by a man of Japanese ancestry is closed following evacuation orders in Oakland, California, in April of 1942. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the owner had placed the "I Am An American" sign in the store front window. This photo is one of 45 photos from part 10 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II, in the column, "In Focus with Alan Taylor".
Ansel Adams. 1943. Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, California
Find more information in the Holman Library database US History in Context (link below). Search "Japanese American Internment Camps."
