Photos
- Photos of the incarceration camps by the War Relocation Authority
- Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration
- Excerpts from a PBS documentary that focus on the impact of Lange’s photos of Manzanar
- There’s a misconception that Lange’s photos were censored by the U.S. government. In fact, they were impounded/embargoed during the war, but not censored afterward: “Correcting the Record on Dorothea Lange’s Japanese Internment Photos”
- Ansel Adams’ photos of the incarceration
Propaganda
content note: The following contain racist depictions and conceptions of Japanese and Japanese American people.
- “Japanese Relocation,” as told by the U.S. Office of War Information in 1943:
- “U.S. Anti-Japanese Propaganda in World War II”
- “These Anti-Japanese Signs From World War II Are A Warning Against Bigotry Today”
Minidoka: Idaho’s Incarceration Camp
- Minidoka National Historic Site
- Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp:
Primary sources and educational resources
- Densho Digital Repository
- The Bancroft Library’s digital archive of the incarceration
- The Geography of Incarceration
- Concentration camps run by the War Relocation Authority
- The Manzanar Committee’s website
- Manzanar National Historic Site
- Map of Manzanar
- Audiovisual materials from the incarceration
- Web Resources and Lessons on the incarceration, from the Japanese American National Museum
- Timeline of Japanese American History, with terminology (PDF)
- Terminology, from Densho
- Terminology and the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, from the National Park Service
Memorials and Remembering
- Manzanar National Historic Site Foundation Document (PDF), a National Park Service overview of the site’s historic resources, values, purpose, significance, and interpretive themes
- “A Garden of Honor: Latino students in East L.A. plant a tribute to Japanese Americans”
- Empty Chair memorial for Japanese Americans from Juneau who were incarcerated at Minidoka
- Photos of the Soul Consoling Tower at Manzanar cemetery
- “Pilgrimage to an Ugly Past at Manzanar”
Japanese Americans react to protest at detention sites
- Immigrant detention centers are a grim reminder of Japanese American history
- “Japanese-American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids at WWII Prison Camp”. Here’s a clip from that broadcast:
