Public schools

Nisei (second-generation) children attended public schools alongside children of other races, although schools in Nihonmachi (Japantown) neighborhoods were overwhelmingly Japanese ethnically. Since Japanese was usually spoken at home, many Nisei learned to speak English in public school. In Seattle, people fondly remember the Bailey Gatzert elementary school whose white principal remained in touch with her students after they were taken to the camps. The Japanese Americans who would have graduated from high school and college in spring 1942 were removed to camps before they could complete the year and attend commencement.

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img Garden Grove Elementary School students (ddr-csujad-29-281)

Photograph titled: "Garden Grove Grammar School students." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P224

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-281/

img Girls School postcards (ddr-densho-26-247)

Envelope of postcards from different Japanese girls schools

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-26-247/

img Class photo (ddr-densho-28-10)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-28-10/

img School portrait (ddr-densho-325-481)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-481/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-551)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-551/

img Class portrait (ddr-densho-325-218)

Class portrait from 1940. Sumito Horiuchi is pictured in the last row third from the left. Hisa Nimura is pictured in the front row second from right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-218/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-548)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-548/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-550)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-550/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-545)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-545/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-541)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-541/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-546)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-546/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-157)

School portrait of one of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi's nephews.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-157/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-552)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-552/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-537)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-537/

img School Portrait (ddr-densho-325-543)

Written on the back of the photograph "1958"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-543/

doc Jerome T. Light Dissertation, Vol. I (ddr-densho-327-1)

"The Development of a Junior-Senior High School Program in a Relocation Center for People of Japanese Ancestry during the War with Japan" is Jerome T. Light's dissertation for his doctorate of Education from Leland Stanford Junior University.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-327-1/