Hiding what happened in camp

Didn't have rights that whites had Californians didn't know about evacuation Terminal Island / San Pedro The day Pearl Harbor was bombed Father as prisoner of war in hospital Patriotism versus loyalty Conditions of assembly centers Idealism before war, being red, white and blue Visit to assembly centers by E. Stanley Jones Postcards to Nisei soldiers Hiding what happened in camp Issei are hard-working Arrest of father Camp as a positive thing Mr. Finch, godfather of the 442nd Meeting Malcolm X Joining the movement Rounding up Issei and Nikkei

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I remember when, when the first...one of the people in our Blo...I think he was a kibei, and he felt really...you know, the Niseis didn't even treat the Kibeis right, I don't think. And, one day, they found his body on the race...I mean on the railroad track, and he was...the train had cut his head off. I mean, but they, they just hushed it up, 'cause they didn't want something like that to get out. But, so there were a lot of things that happened in camp that no one was even supposed to know about.

Date: June 16, 2003
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Karen Ishizuka, Akira Boch
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum.

camps incarceration internment World War II