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A Grave Injustice (2019-09-06)
About this film
This episode from the first season of The Future of America’s Past, a public television series, explores the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Topics discussed include President Franklin Roosevelt’s order authorizing incarceration of men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry following the attack on Pearl Harbor; the establishment of camps, including Manzanar; conditions found in Manzanar barracks; the recollections of a 94-year-old woman who was incarcerated at Manzanar; the photographic documentation of camps and their inhabitants by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake; the reclamation and preservation of Manzanar by Japanese Americans in the 1960s and 1970s; the 1970s and 1980s campaign for redress and reparations; and ongoing activism related to this history.
Directors & creators
Field Studio
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Japanese American incarceration, World War II, Executive Order 9066, Civil rights violations, Constitutional law, Manzanar National Historic Site, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Racism in the United States, National security, Pearl Harbor, Immigration detention, Forced relocation, Social justice, American history, Xenophobia, Civil liberties, Concentration camps, Human rights, War hysteria, Discriminatory policies, Historical memory, U.S. government history, Japanese American history, California history, Military orders
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