Allies
One Fighting Irishman was the title of a recent biographical film about this lawyer who defended many Japanese Americans whom no one else would help.
Who is Wayne Collins?
Despite having the name of a large city in Texas as her surname, her landmark incarceration memoir was set in Manzanar.
Who is Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston?
One of the three “assembly centers” that we know housed Japanese American prisoners in converted horse stables.
What are Tanforan, Santa Anita, or Tulare?
One of the three federal prisons in which Nisei draft resisters served their time.
What are McNeil Island, Catalina/Tucson, or Leavenworth?
The only hearing site in the Midwest saw testimony from Minoru Yasui, Studs Terkel, and Kay Uno Kaneko among many others.
What is Chicago?
Though he was honored by the JACL in 1946, changing views of the incarceration were such that a 1987 biography of him was titled Keeper of Concentration Camps.
Though several white authors wrote children’s books about the Japanese American incarceration in the 40s and 50s, her 1971 young adult novel Journey to Topaz was the first such book by a Japanese American author.
Who is Yoshiko Uchida?
While most “assembly centers” were close to the homes of their incarcerees, many Pacific Northwesterners had to travel hundreds of miles to this Central California site.
What is Pinedale?
Popular mystery writer whose novels Clark and Division and Evergreen use murder cases to explore the challenges and opportunities Nisei faced in the immediate post-camp era.
Who is Naomi Hirahara?
An ardent opponent of redress, she tried to wrest written testimony from a Nisei veteran at the Los Angeles hearings before being taken away by police.
Who is Lillian Baker?
The prewar pastor at the Japanese Baptist Church of Seattle, he and his family moved to Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1942 so that he could continue to minister to his congregation.
Who is Emery Andrews?
The best-selling living author in the world, her 38th novel, Silent Honor, was about a Japanese American family’s wartime odyssey in American concentration camps.
Who is Danielle Steel?
This “assembly center” was adapted from an indoor livestock pavilion, parts of which are still in use today.
What is Portland?
In February 1943, Tule Lake incarcerees were threatened with twenty-year prison terms and $10,000 fines under the Espionage Act of 1917 if they did not do this.
What is register/complete the “loyalty questionnaire”?
Of the ten hearing locations, three were in this state.
What is Alaska?
Writer and social activist known for her 1931 novel The Good Earth, she was one of the only nationally known figures to publicly oppose the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans as it was taking place.
Who is Pearl S. Buck?
Later a renowned writer of short stories, her murder mystery “Death Rides the Rails to Poston” was first serialized in the Poston Chronicle in 1943.
Who is Hisaye Yamamoto?
The only “assembly center” that has no historic marker or memorial, a local teacher and his students are working with Japanese American community members to plan one.
What is Tulare?
After serving time in a federal work camp for violating the curfew orders, Gordon Hirabayashi went to prison a second time for this crime.
What is resisting the draft?
The only Japanese American among the nine CWRIC commissioners, he was a Philadelphia area judge in his day job.
Who is William Marutani?
Originally formed to aid conscientious objectors in 1917, this organization later helped incarcerated Nisei attend colleges on the outside and established hostels for former incarcerees leaving camp.
What is the American Friends Service Committee?
Getting her start on stage as a teenager in Amache, she later starred on Broadway in Flower Drum Song and sang at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural ball.
Who is Pat Suzuki?
The first stop in the continental U.S. for most of the Issei internees from Hawai‘i, some were held in detention barracks that once held Chinese immigrants and picture brides.
What is Angel Island?
Though rumors of this crime circulated at virtually all of the concentration camps, the FBI arrest of a white chef at the Fresno Assembly Center was the only one at any of the WCCA or WRA camps for doing this.
What is stealing food?
Even though he was not in camp himself despite being of Japanese descent, his presentation opposing monetary redress was by far the longest of anyone to testify at the Los Angeles hearings.
Who is S. I. Hayakawa?