Conscience and the Constitution

Conscience and the Constitution

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States. Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Japanese Americans -- Civil rights. Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Japanese Americans -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Concentration camps -- Wyoming. Documentary films. Films for the hearing impaired.

Americans, organized as the Fair Play Committee, refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ready to fight, but not before their rights as U.S. citizens were restored and families released. The largest organized resistance to incarceration, leading to the largest trial for draft resistance in U.S. history. Prosecuted as criminals, Japanese American leaders and veterans ostracized them as traitors. The resisters served two years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the official history of Japanese America.

Abe, Frank, prod. dir

Transit Media

2000

2003.500.3425