Citizenship

 

Japanese American Incarceration during World War II

• A Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience by the Japanese American Citizens League
• Densho Project
• The Korematsu Institute Digital Curriculum Toolkit
• Library of Congress Primary Source Set
• Letters from Japanese American Incarceration (Smithsonian)
• A More Perfect Union by Smithsonian (Loyalty questionnaire)

Japanese Americans in the Military During WWII

• Densho Encyclopedia
• Go For Broke National Education Center
• Japanese American Veterans Association
• 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Education Center

Youth Baseball in the Camps

• Essay on Densho Blog
• Baseball & Barbed Wire
• Baseball Behind Barbed Wire (National Museum of American History)
• Japanese American Baseball History Project

Arts in the Camps

• Days of Waiting: The Art & Life of Estelle Ishigo (available on Kanopy)
• The Art of Gaman
• Toyo Miyatake’s son Archie describing the camera his father brought to camp
• Toyo Miyatake: Capturing the Stories of Japanese Americans in LA

Individuals Who Brought Cases to the Supreme Court

• Mitsuye Endo: The Woman Behind the Landmark Supreme Court Case
• Minoru Yasui
• Gordon Hirabayashi
• Fred Korematsu
• Allegiance musical

Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Lessons

• What Does a U.S. Citizen “Look” Like? What Does It Mean to Be Loyal to Your Country? (K-8)
• Yuri Kochiyama (Secondary)