Example of Virtual Field Trip

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Example of Virtual Field Trip

• All photos are from the National Archives
• http//www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.ht
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• Japanese relocation during WWII
• http//www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
  japanese_relocation_wwii/japanese_relocation.html

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Japanese Internment Camps

• Many people do not know that during
• World War II, people of Japanese ancestry,
• even those who had been living in the U.S.
• for generations, were forced to leave their
• homes and belongings and live in camps
• surrounded by barbed wire and armed
• guards. After Pearl Harbor was bombed by the
• Japanese, there was fear and hatred of anyone
• who looked like they might be from Japan.

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Purpose of Field Trip

• To learn about this shameful event in our
  countrys history
• To see examples of ways people were affected by
  this event
• To think about what it must have felt like to be
  treated this way
• To make comparisons with similar feelings about
  groups since the tragedy of September 11.

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What you would have seen

• The next six slides show examples of events you
  might have witnessed, if you had been in San
  Francisco in 1942.

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National Archives photo
Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at
their home before evacuation. The father and
mother were born in Japan and came to this
country in 1904. At that time the father had 60
in cash and a basket of clothes. He later built a
prosperous business of raising select varieties
of chrysanthemums which he shipped to Eastern
markets under his own trade name. Six children
in the family were born in the United States.
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National Archives photo
Posting of Exclusion Order at First and Front
Streets in San Francisco, California, directing
removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from the
first section in San Francisco to be affected by
the evacuation.
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National Archives photo
Packing Up in San Francisco, California. Dave
Tatsuno rereads notes he compiled while he was a
student at the University of California where he
was graduated in 1936. Tatsuno, with his
two-year-old son at his side, is packing his
possessions at 2625 Buchanan Street, prior to
evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry.
Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation
Authority centers for the duration.
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National Archives photo
Thank You Note in "Little Tokyo" in Los Angeles,
California. Mr. and Mrs. K. Tseri have closed
their drugstore in preparation for the
forthcoming evacuation from their home and
business.
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National Archives photo
Waiting for Evacuation in San Francisco,
California. With baggage stacked, residents of
Japanese ancestry await a bus at the Wartime
Civil Control Administration station, 2020 Van
Ness Avenue, as part of the first group of 664 to
be evacuated from San Francisco on April 6, 1942.
Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation
Authority centers for the duration.
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Relocation Centers

• The next slide shows a map of where the
• Relocation Centers were located. Then the
• next six slides show examples of the life of
• people in the camps from 1942-1944.

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Map showing Internment Centers
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Camp Perimeter, Tule Lake, Utah
Source of photo J. Willard Marriott Library,
University of Utah
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National Archives photo
High School Campus at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
Classes are housed in tarpaper-covered,
barrack-style buildings originally designed as
living quarters for the evacuees.
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Tri-State High School, Utah
Source of photo J. Willard Marriott Library,
University of Utah
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Football Team Utahs Camp Topaz
Source of photo J. Willard Marriott Library,
University of Utah
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National Archives photo
Coal Crew at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. It takes
approximately four carloads of coal a day to
provide heat for residents at this Wyoming
relocation center during the cold winter months.
Here a crew of men load trucks from the coal
gondola for delivery to barracks
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Laboring to harvest potatoes
Source of photo J. Willard Marriott Library,
University of Utah
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Letter of Apology from President Bush
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Ways to find out more

• For fictionalized description of events
• Read the book or watch the film
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Read the book,
• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

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Ways to find out more

• View more images at the National
  Archiveshttp//www.archives.gov/digital_classroom
  /lessons/japanese_relocation_wwii/japanese_relocat
  ion.html
• Do a Google search for Japanese relocation
  centers.

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Questions to discuss

• What is Executive Order 9066? Find answer using
  a Google search.
• What would you take with you if you had to leave
  your home and only take what you could carry in
  one suitcase?
• How would you feel if you were judged to be good
  or bad, just on the basis of your appearance?
• Why did President Bush send a letter of apology
  to Japanese-Americans sent to the camps?