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Collections on Japanese Americans in World War II

This guide aims to illuminate the comprehensive collections housed in the Special Collections Research Center related to Japanese Americans in World War II, highlighting the challenges they faced in the U.S. and their contributions to the war effort. In a

Curriculum Guides

Classroom before and after 1942, showing missing Japanese American students
Classroom in a west coast school before and after 1942

Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/about/education

Asia Society: http://asiasociety.org/education/japanese-american-internment

Calisphere, University of California:

Grades 4-5: https://calisphere.org/for-educators/6/views-and-voices-within/

Grades 6-8: https://calisphere.org/for-educators/7/are-we-americans-again/

Grades 9-12: https://calisphere.org/for-educators/8/beauty-behind-barbed-wire/

Densho: https://densho.org/teach/lesson-plans/

Discover Nikkei contains links to 67 individual lesson plans ranging from kindergarten through college: http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/resources/lessonplans/search/?keywords=&grades=&subjects=&languages=&m=1101087989551&p=oi&ea

Japanese American Citizens League:

The Japanese American Experience: A Lesson in American History: https://jacl.org/the-japanese-american-experience

The Journey from Gold Mountain: The Asian American Experience: https://fsl-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/scrc/liguide_uploads/2006_GoldMountain_CurGuide.pdf

The Power of Words: A Guide to Language about Japanese Americans in World War II: https://jacl.org/power-of-words

Fred T. Korematsu Institute:https://korematsuinstitute.org/educational-toolkit/#:~:text=The%20Korematsu%20Institute%20develops%20curriculum,and%20current%20civil%20rights%20issues.

Smithsonian Institute:

Classroom activity, grades 2-6: http://amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/resources/curator.html

Classroom activity, grades 7-12: http://amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/resources/activity2.html

Letter activity: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/japanese_internment/lesson1_main.html