#NeverAgain — Resources
Curriculum and Additional Resources for Educators
Resources for this curriculum
#NeverAgain Lesson Images for Lessons 1-6 (PDF)
Arts Activity Pages (PDF)
Extension Action Civics Plan Handouts (PDF)
Additional Resources for Educators
U.S. Government Resources
National Archives documentation of Japanese American incarceration, photos, scanned documents
Archival photos - 14 minute documentary video featuring Satsuki Ina focused on the “Fifth Column” hysteria and government propaganda which included the hiring and censoring of photographer Dorothea Lange.
More About Specific Concentration Camps
Manzanar online Museum - virtual tour of the concentration camp along with short oral histories
Tule Lake - Tule Lake was the home of the largest protests during the incarceration. This website is created and maintained by volunteers, many of whom were detained there.
More “Hidden Histories”
Densho - Campu - podcast from brother and sister team with stories about incarceration experience: rocks, fences, food, paper.
6 Minute documentaries - short videos on people involved in the Japanese American incarceration
More Personal Stories
Aki Kurose’s story - 5 minute animated overview of incarceration told from one woman's perspective, 16 when she was put into detention in Washington state. She utilized her experience to fight for civil rights.
The Akune brothers: Siblings on opposite sides of war - Wendell Oshiro’s 4 minute animated story of brothers on both sides of WWII, Great video to watch with perspectives lesson
Crystal City Camp Story - 10 minute animation memoir written and Illustrated by Sat Ichikawa
Densho Archives - the most comprehensive archive of Japanese American incarceration oral histories. Featured speaker Nina Wallace works here
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston. Memoir of author’s 7 year old experience incarcerated at Manzanar.
Satsuki Ina - 4 minute documentary video, focusing on Satuski’s story and her work with Latinx migrants
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker. Black and white graphic memoir from Star Trek’s Sulu chronicling his experience as a 4 year old during the Japanese American incarceration.
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee, YA novel follows 14 Nisei teenagers who grew up together in San Francisco as their lives are upended by the mass incarcerations.
Resistance
We Hereby Refuse: : Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe & Tamiko Nimura. A graphic novel which tells the story of Jim Akutsu at Minidoka, Hiroshi Kashiwagi at Tule Lake and Mitsuye Endo at Topaz
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins, Stan Yogi, & Yutaka Houlette. Filled with photos, primary documents, and illustrations. Tells Fred’s story being a fun loving 23 year old in Oakland who refuses to report to the camps and is arrested. His court case was reopened and overturned in 1983.
Densho’s Stories about some of the Japanese American resistors
The Resisters - author/activist Frank Abe’s website and educator's guide for the graphic novel We Hereby Refuse with interactive timeline that allows for a deeper dive on each subject area.
Redress & Reparations
Tsuru for Solidarity, the organization that Mike Ishi, Satsuki Ina and Lisa Doi are a part of, is now focused on utilizing the Japanese American incarceration and redress as a model for reparations for other communities.
Day of Remembrance, Japanese American Citizens League overview of the observation each February 19th.
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Films
Children of the Camps by Satsuki Ina
Conscious and the Constitution by Frank Abe
Rabbit in the Moon by Emiko Omori
Resistance at Tule Lake by Konrad Adererm
People to know more about
Photo by Alexander Novati, 2013, Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA 3.0