A published collection of Nisei valedictorians' speeches from the 1930s, it reflects prewar Nisei students' educational experiences and their world views. A longer history of the project is also available.
The California Nisei High School Diploma Project is a community outreach and education program in support of Assembly Bill 781, a California law that authorizes any high school district, unified school district or County Office of Education to retroactively issue a high school diploma to any person of Japanese descent whose high school education was interrupted due to forced removal and incarceration from California during World War II.
Extensive web site documenting the experience of Japanese American students during World War II. Includes links to numerous primary sources, a bibliography, and a list of Nikkei students enrolled at the University during 1941-42.
"During the tumultuous months between Pearl Harbor and the forced evictions in the spring of 1942, the University of Washington mustered its administrative know-how and academic prestige to aid its many students of Japanese ancestry. This project tells the story of a university and its students — a story of institutional perseverance and individual courage."
"The graduation stage had a ramp for a wheelchair, and the 14 Niseis — second-generation Japanese-Americans — wore origami crane leis Thursday when they received the Fowler High School diplomas denied them while they were exiled during World War II."
"Japanese Language Readers Used in Hawai'i" (University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library). Elementary textbooks for young students of Japanese, used in Japanese language schools in Hawai'i.
William A. Rogers' cartoon, published in Harper's Weekly on November 10, 1906, addressed the San Francisco Board of Education's decision (October 11, 1906) that Japanese students in the city's public schools should be taught in racially segregated schools. Kennedy's article considers the cartoon in the context of the climate of racism and exclusion that prevailed at the time.
"Nine former Stanford students who were relocated to internment camps during World War II were honored Friday, Oct. 1, in an emotional ceremony organized by current student members of the Asian American community."
"The University of Nebraska accepted approximately 100 Nisei students who had their college education disrupted. Many of those students had never been outside of California. But Nebraska, wherever that was, offered a chance at an education and, perhaps, normalcy. 'Nebraska really restored freedom to us,' said Pat Sano, a 1948 NU graduate and retired geologist. 'It was our chance to become part of society again.'"
The CJAAA provides scholarships to Nikkei students attending the University of California. The History section details the group's history from its founding in 1923; profiles of distinguished members; and "memories" by alumni including Yoshiko Uchida.
"The story of 'Miss Jamison' and the education program in the prison camps at Rohwer and Jerome in Arkansas provides a fresh new view of a Caucasian teacher who came to work with a 'strange' group of students, but who was herself educated in the process. Through evidence from Jamison’s papers, contemporary documents, historical accounts, interviews with survivors and even from the students’ art work Miss Jamison preserved, Ziegler creates a perceptive account of the wartime ordeal of the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them American citizens, from a unique point of view."
A collaborative project of six students in the University of Washington's Asian American Studies 372 course (2004), to further knowledge of the children in the Minidoka camp. The site incorporates essays written by 18 incarcerated children; articles related to children published in the Minidoka Irrigator between 1942-1945; and articles published in the federal newsletter Education for Victory dealing with Japanese Americans.