Overcoming Discrimination and Adversity (Elementary)
Stories of Frank C. Hirahara, Kazuko Sakai Nakao, Kaz Yamamoto, and Fred Shiosaki. As survivors of Japanese Incarceration Camps during WWII, the powerful stories of these survivors reveal the damaging nature of racial discrimination upon the Japanese American community before, during, and after war.
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S2 Ep2 | 5m 10s | A Yakima family faced daily challenges at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming (5m 10s)
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S2 Ep1 | 6m 34s | A 15-year-old girl is among the first Japanese Americans to be sent to incarceration camps (6m 34s)
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S2 Ep4 | 6m 2s | Despite his families poor treatment Fred Shiosaki joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (6m 2s)
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S2 Ep3 | 5m 12s | Frank Hirahara and his father photographed everyday moments and milestones in Heart Mtn. (5m 12s)
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