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Project to document JA WWII life at Rohwer and Jerome Camps

The same article as found in 1900.4751 with a by-line by Melissa Nelson.

Senate approaves study of site where Japanese-Americans held

Bill authorizing the Interior Dept. to study whether the Eagledale ferry site, where the first Japanese Americans were taken and sent to internment camps, should come under the designation of the NPS.

Veterans say Americans' viewpoint should be evident at monument

Most attending a public meeting on the Momument said balance in presentation was important.

Uncertainty clouds bill on WWII Bainbridge internment camp

Possible passage of a bill to direct the National Park Service to study whether the Eagledale Ferry Dock, site of first Japanese Americans removed to internment camps, should be included in their system.

Born in Seattle: Japanese American Redress - Part III

The beginnings of the redress efforts and the Appeal for Action that was sent to Japanese American groups.

Born in Seattle: Japanese American Redress - Part IV

Details the efforts that lead to President Ford's signing of the Presidential revocation of Executive Order 9066.

Never again

Compares treatment of WWII Japanese who were not citizens and had to be treated in accordance with international law and Japanese American citizens had no such protections.

A little known story in WWII history: The Tankers

A group of Nisei were trained at the Armored Training Center, Fort Knox, KY to be part of a special Nisei tank battalion .