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LA County Library: Executive Order 9066 & The Japanese American Experience
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February 2, 2022
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, a wartime order that authorized the forcible incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans. As we approach its 80th anniversary, LA County Library has compiled a list of books and documentary films to help children, teens, and adults learn more about the Japanese American experience during World War II and the lasting impact Executive 9066 has had on the Japanese American community.
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Japanese American Internment: Books for Adults
Nisei Daughter
Farewell to Manzanar
Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
Child Prisoner in American Concentration Camps
The Grave on the Wall
Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II
Japanese American Internment: Books for Teens
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
We are Not Free
They Called Us Enemy
Displacement
Four-Four-Two
Japanese American Internment: Books for Children
Desert Diary: Japanese American Kids Behind Barbed Wire
Weedflower
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
Sylvia & Aki
Fish for Jimmy: Inspired By One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
Japanese American Internment: Documentaries
Meeting at Tule Lake
Children of the Camps
Fumiko Hayashida the Woman Behind the Symbol
Rabbit in the Moon
A Bitter Legacy
Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
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