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Injustice at Home

The Japanese American Experience of the World War II Era

An exploration of Executive Order 9066 and the resulting internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the failure of political leadership to protect constitutional rights, the military experience of Japanese Americans during WWII, and examples of discrimination and racial prejudice the Japanese American community faced before, during and after the war.

The Upstanders

Video has Closed Captions

S1 Ep4 | 6m 40s | How did people respond to their neighbors being incarcerated? (6m 40s)

Resilience Behind Barbed Wire

Video has Closed Captions

S1 Ep5 | 7m 22s | Under difficult condition the internees tried to make life as normal as possible. (7m 22s)

Questions of Loyalty

Video has Closed Captions

S1 Ep3 | 6m 12s | How Japanese Americans expressed their patriotism and loyalty (6m 12s)

Looking Like the Enemy

Video has Closed Captions

S1 Ep1 | 8m 1s | Overview of the Japanese American’s mass incarceration during WWII. (8m 1s)

Beyond the Exclusion Zone

Video has Closed Captions

S1 Ep2 | 6m 40s | Life in the non-evacuation military zones, using Spokane as the primary focus (6m 40s)

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