Sentences with phrase «family internment»
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell (Audible version)
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I had a chance to meet Robin Koda, one of the two owners of California's oldest family owned rice farm and was excited to tell her how much I appreciated her for sharing her family's story on NBC of settling in California, enduring internment camps, and carrying on their family business.
(In English and French with subtitles) MIS — Human Secret Weapon (Unrated) World War II documentary belatedly crediting the contributions made by patriotic Japanese - Americans translating intercepted messages and cracking enemy codes, despite the fact that their families were caged like animals in desert internment camps.
Set in an America where a pandemic has killed most of the children and teenagers, the story tells of teens with superpowers who are taken from their families and placed inside internment camps.
Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.
Ruri, a young Japanese girl, and her family are taken to an internment camp during WWII because the US government was afraid Japanese A...
And finally the harmonica turns up in Southern California in 1942 in the hands of Ivy Maria Lopez, a young Mexican - American girl whose family's fortune changes after a Japanese family is sent to an internment camp.
Otsuka tells an exquisite psychological tale, inspired by her own family's travails, of the internment of tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans during World War II.
In the simplest words, this small, beautiful novel captures the anguish of Japanese American internment through the separate viewpoints of one family: the mother as they leave home, the daughter on the long train journey, the son in the camps, the father returning to his family.
There's no doubt many of these battles were brutal; in antebellum America, Sarah Roberts and her family fought for school desegregation; during WWII, civil rights activist Fred Korematsu resisted Japanese internment - camp imprisonment; and in 1967, Mildred and Richard Loving overturned a Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriage.
In Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds, Harry Fukuhara, his sister Mary, and his niece Jeanie were forced into internment camps built to house people of Japanese descent who were living in the United States during World War II.
After Pearl Harbor, Nina Masako and her family are uprooted from their home in Seattle and placed in an internment camp in Idaho.
Four months later, the rest of the family was taken to the internment camp at Santa Anita Race Track, where they were housed in former horse stalls for five months, before being moved to another internment camp, in Rohwer, Arkansas.
Born in 1926 in rural California to Japanese immigrants, Asawa and her family were relocated to two internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.
Her family was detained in internment camps during World War II, and throughout her life she was hindered by being Japanese - American and a woman.
Born in rural California, Asawa began to make art while detained in internment camps for Japanese Americans at Santa Anita, California, and Rohwer, Arkansas, where she was sent with her family in 1942 - 1943.
Anti-Japanese sentiment rose during World War II, when Japanese - Americans such as Asawa and her family were ordered into internment camps between 1942 — 46.
She was born to Japanese immigrant parents, and during World War II she and her family were sent (1942) to internment camps, first at the Santa Anita Park racetrack and later to Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas.
As suggested, they are designed to take care of any final expenses that would be incurred in the event of your death, so that the costs associated with funeral arrangement, internment and a casket are not a burden on your family.