Circle of Viewpoints: Pearl Harbor and Japanese Internment Camps

Created May 8, 2024 by Kate Katz, Melissa Mitchell, Jacqueline Greene


Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004665381/

I would use this photo of a store front the day after the attack of Pearl Harbor and use it with the circle of viewpoints activity  as an introduction to Japenese Internment.  Link to circle of viewpoints at Project Zero:  (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/circle-of-viewpoints)

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