Resource Guides: Edmonds College Community Read: The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter &amp; Sweet: Internment of Japanese Americans

On the web

Bainbridge Island evacuees boarding ferry under army guard. 1942
Source: UW Libraries Camp Harmony Exhibit

Densho Project
Collection of testimonies from Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, along information and historical images
Confinement and Ethnicity: Barbed Wire Divider An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
Report from the National Park Service
Manzanar National Historic Site
Virtual exhibit depicting life at Manzanar, where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were confined
The War Relocation Camps of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice
From the National Park Service
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution
From the Smithsonian National Museum of History
"Pride and Shame": The Museum Exhibit that Helped Launch the Japanese American Redress Movement
From Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
Camp Harmony Exhibit
Exhibit from the University of Washington depicting the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp Harmony."

In the library

Below is a partial list of books and films in the library about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. To find the book or film in the library, click on the title and write down the call number. You can find it on the shelf or ask a librarian to help you.

Books

Films