Education in a Japanese American Internment Camp
Farewell to Manzanar
Memoir
By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Date: 1973
Source: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973, 89–90, 93.
About the Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934–) was born in Inglewood, California. Her Japanese American family was among the first to be interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II (1939–1945). Houston studied sociology and journalism at San Jose State College, where she and her husband, a novelist, first met. They were married in 1957 and live in California. Houston was awarded both the Humanities Prize in 1976 and the Christopher Award for the screenplay of Farewell to Manzanar.
"A Teacher at Topaz"
Memoir
By: Eleanor Gerard Sekerak
Date: 2000
Source: Sekerak,...
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1940's Education Primary Sources
The 1940's: Primary Sources
