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Tule Lake Resisters: My E.O. 9066 Story

The World War II American concentration camp experience was the darkest time in Japanese American history. It was also a black mark on America, as ...

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Resistance at Tule Lake—Talking with Filmmaker Konrad Aderer

In these difficult political times, resistance appears every day—from marches to political organizing to Star Wars movies to hashtags. But for many within the ...

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Film Focuses On Little-Known WWII Camps: Story of Moab, Leupp told in Claudia Katayanagi’s A Bitter Legacy

Claudia Katayanagi has an extensive list of credits as a sound recordist or sound mixer for documentaries dealing with a variety of topics — Confucius Was ...

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To Be or Not To Be American: The Truth About Tule Lake Concentration Camp - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Besides resistance to their being imprisoned and refusing army service, were there ever any acts of “disloyalty”/terrorism ever committed by these ...

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Exploring the Wartime Kibei-Nisei Struggles

“What I have attempted to introduce in (Show Me the Way Home),” writes Takako Day in the preface to her brilliant, bold, highly significant, if ...

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Carrying the Torch: Wayne Collins Jr. on His Father’s Defense of the Renunciants

The inscription on the front page of Michi Nishiura Weglyn’s landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, reads ...

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‘Masterpiece’ Traces Battles Nikkei Fought for Justice

On the dust jacket of this volume, I am quoted as pronouncing it to be “a substantial contribution to Japanese American historiography and collective memory ...

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Tule Lake - Part 2 of 2

Read Part 1 >>I was having the time of my life, working a few hours a day as a dishwasher in the mess hall and ...

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 9 of 9

Read Part 8 >> The government pursued a hard line, determined to challenge the bid of each renunciant who sought restoration of citizenship. In bleak contrast ...

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 8 of 9

Read Part 7 >> Creating Alien Enemies Edward Ennis’ Deputy in the DOJ Alien Enemy Control Unit, John Burling, was the designated hearing officer for the ...