In 1942, in reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women & children to leave their homes and unjustly imprisoned them in remote, military-style camps. The National Park Service has preserved several camp locations as a reminder to this and future generations of the fragility of American civil liberties. Densho.org preserves irreplaceable firsthand accounts of survivors, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.
In 1942, in reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women & children to leave their homes and unjustly imprisoned them in remote, military-style camps. The National Park Service has preserved several camp locations as a reminder to this and future generations of the fragility of American civil liberties. Densho.org preserves irreplaceable firsthand accounts of survivors, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.
General Note
Originally released by Bennett-Watt, 2014.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 04, 2017.
Content Note
Reaction to Pearl Harbor (6:30); --Manzanar National Historic Site (6:15); -- Life at Manzanar Camp (9:51); -- Exhibits at Manzanar National Historic Site (6:37); -- Densho (2:53); -- Japanese-American Concentration Camps (6:44); -- Heart Mountain Interpretive Center (3:26); -- Japanese-Americans at the end of WWII (5:37); -- Credits: Japanese American Incarceration 1942-1945 (2:02); .