Yakima Family’s Heart Mountain Softball Illustrates Japanese Incarceration Story at Smithsonian

Seventy three years ago, a contingent of 1,018 Japanese and Japanese Americans left the Yakima Valley in the State of Washington and were sent to the Portland Assembly Center in Oregon due to President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing of Executive Order 9066 that sent Japanese and Japanese Americans living along the Pacific Coast to Japanese incarceration camps during World War II.
The Yakima Valley contingent finally arrived at the Heart Mountain Japanese Relocation Center in Wyoming in August of 1942 and began a life of coping the best they could to make a temporary home in barrack apartments and ...