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California Reads aims to bring Californians together to explore important topics through books that invite conversation. This grant and resource program of the California Council for the Humanities (CCH), in partnership with the California Center for the Book (CFB), is designed to support public libraries in developing programs that will stimulate meaningful dialogue among diverse community members by using works of fiction and non-fiction.
Programming at Los Angeles Public Library will reach throughout the city and engage residents in consideration of the meaning of democracy, community and civic life using the Annotated Constitution and Declaration of Independence, A Paradise Built in Hell, Farewell to Manzanar, and It Can’t Happen Here. Seven branches will host programs in collaboration with a diverse array of local partners including theater groups, community organizations, the League of Women Voters, middle and high schools, and Town Hall of Los Angeles.
Author, Jeanne Houston Biography
One day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration camps that had incarcerated approximately 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. The nephew, who had been born in one of the camps, Manzanar, asked to know more about the family's experiences
News, Reference, Images, Primary Sources of Jeanne Houston
JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. In the spring and summer of 1942, the United States, as an ostensible matter of military necessity, incarcerated virtually the entire Japanese American population of the West Coast states. ...
Japanese American Internment
JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. In the spring and summer of 1942, the United States, as an ostensible matter of military necessity, incarcerated virtually the entire Japanese American population of the West Coast states. ...
Japanese American Internment relating to California
In the early 1940s, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a series of cases that together validated the forced removal of 120,000 American citizens and lawful resident immigrants of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. These...
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945
Photograph By: Ansel Adams Date: 1945 Source: Adams, Ansel. Mt. Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1945. About the Photographer: American photographer Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is best known for his ...
Autobiography by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934-
Jeanne Watatsuki Houston contributed the following autobiographical essay to SATA:
Colors! Seeing the stages of my life as colors. Where did I get such an idea? I trace it back to 1956, when I was twenty-one years old...
Biography of the author
Born September 26, 1934, in CA: daughter of Ko (a fisherman) and Riku (Sugai) Wakatsuki; married James D. Houston (a writer), 1957; children: Corinne, Joshua, Gabrielle.
Viewpoints for Japanese American Internment
'Profiling Japanese Americans During World War II Was Unjustified' by Eric Muller. Racial Profiling., Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. Eric Muller, 'Indefensible Internment: There Was No Good ...
Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946
'Profiling Japanese Americans During World War II Was Unjustified' by Eric Muller. Racial Profiling., Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. Eric Muller, 'Indefensible Internment: There Was No Good ...
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
'Profiling Japanese Americans During World War II Was Unjustified' by Eric Muller. Racial Profiling., Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. Eric Muller, 'Indefensible Internment: There Was No Good ...
Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981
'Profiling Japanese Americans During World War II Was Unjustified' by Eric Muller. Racial Profiling., Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. Eric Muller, 'Indefensible Internment: There Was No Good ...