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All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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1944 league baseball game at the Tule Lake Segregation Center
The 1944 league baseball season got underway at the Tule Lake Segregation Center on April 19. Project Director Ray R. Best tossed out the first ball. Nearly half of the 17,000 residents of the center were present for the opening game
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Riot at Manzanar headline
Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
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Returning Seattle family’s garage vandalized
This photo, from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, 1945, was captioned: “The Nagaishi family returned to find their property vandalized.”
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Tule Lake jail
A jail was built at Tule Lake which was co-managed by the border guards and WRA wardens. The building still survies today.
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442nd Regimental Combat Team
Original caption: Japanese-American troops climb into a truck as they prepare to move their bivouac area. 2nd Battalion, 442nd Combat Team, Chambois Sector. France
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Nisei farm workers in Montana
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Nisei students at Swarthmore
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63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee at a court hearing in Cheyenne, Wyo
Photograph of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee. Photograph titled: “63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee at a court hearing in Cheyenne, Wyo., having been charged with resisting the draft.”
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Gordon Hirabayashi and Bill Schmoe, 1941
Hirabayashi met the Schmoe family when Floyd Schmoe of the American Friends Service Committee supported Hirabayashi’s resistance to the curfew and exclusion laws for Japanese Americans. Schmoe worked actively to assist Japanese Americans who had been evacuated, and later traveled to Hiroshima to help survivors of the atomic bomb. In this photograph, Hirabayashi is pictured with Schmoe’s son, Bill.
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Fred T. Korematsu
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The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
Stan Yogi
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Module 1: Overview & Introduction
Stan Yogi
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Module 2: Setting the Stage for Japanese American Mass Incarceration
Stan Yogi
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Module 3: Forced Uprooting and Incarceration
Stan Yogi
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Module 4: Cooperation, Resistance, and Dissent
Stan Yogi
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Module 5: Starting Over
Stan Yogi
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Module 6: Redress and Solidarity
Stan Yogi
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The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights
Mae Ngai
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Module 1: That Chinese Girl
Mae Ngai
