Browse Items (3 total)

Tags: Manzanar Relocation Center

Sort by:

Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese

The photograph depicts builders working on a Barracks block in preparation to build the huge center at Manzanar. The photograph has an attaching caption noting that the barrack block in the photograph as being only one of what would be 350 barrack…

Tags: 20th century, California, construction, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Mandatory evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Photograph, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, So Cal, Southern California, WW2

Short-Term leave Authorization, WRA

This source is a written authorization of leave written by the WRA (War Relocation Authority). The WRA was the agency tasked with handling the internment of people of Japanese Ancestry during the Second World War. The paper states that a ‘Thomas…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, Japanese Ancestry, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Leave Form, Manzanar Relocation Center, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, Thomas Michibiku Ozamoto, War Relocation Authority, Western Defence Command, WW2

Mitsu, Margaret, Jane and Roy Nakai and baby, Manzanar Relocation Center

The photograph depicts the Nakai family in their living quarters from within the Manzanar Relocation Center. The photograph shows two women as well as three younger children, the photograph being one of many families whom found themselves placed into…

Tags: 20th century, Ansel Adams, Art, California, Children, Discrimination, Family, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camp, Mandatory evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Photograph, Protest, Racism, Relocation, Women

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2