“Born in an internment camp for Japanese Americans, she fears Muslims face a similar fate today,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 2017 “What to see in L.A. galleries: World War II farm labor camp photography and more,” Los Angeles Times, …
Uprooted was recently featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Talk Out Loud. Our curator, Morgen Young, was joined by Aya Fujii and Taka Mizote. The sisters shared their memories of the farm labor camps in Nyssa and Adrian, Oregon. Listen …
It has been almost a year now since I attended the opening of the “Uprooted” exhibit in Ontario, Oregon, and what I learned there has provoked my curiosity and stuck in my mind ever since. At first, I asked myself …
Earlier this month, Karen Yonemura Ramirez reached out to us. She and her parents, Ben and Josie, were incarcerated at Minidoka and later lived in the Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp. Karen shared her story with us, along with …
We are starting a new series on our blog, in which we ask individuals who have seen Uprooted to share their thoughts about the exhibit. The first post is from Susan Uchiyama Nagai. Her father, Mathias Uchiyama, and his family …
James Kazuo Tanaka shared with us some photographs of the Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp, which are now part of the Japanese American National Museum’s collections. James lived in the camp with his parents James Kenso and Toshiko Mildred. …
“Uprooted” draws from images of Japanese American farm labor camps taken by Russell Lee in the summer of 1942. Lee worked as a staff photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a federal agency that between 1935 and 1944 …
Many books, articles, and digital content have been written about the Japanese American wartime experience. The following are just a small number of resources, but each includes additional information about farm labor camps. For a more extensive bibliography, check …