Education

Schools were quickly organized in the concentration camps, but they suffered from crude facilities and lack of teaching materials. Instruction was given for nursery through high school, and adult education was offered. Trained teachers were in short supply, however, and uncertified Japanese Americans with college degrees often filled in. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) deliberately emphasized Americanization in the education program. Some found it painfully ironic to watch incarcerated youth recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

World War II (277)
Concentration camps (1771)
Education (1589)

Filters

Facilities

Format

Genre

Usage

Use <Ctrl> or (⌘) keys to select multiple terms

Gallery view
List view

1589 items

doc Rivulet (1945) (ddr-densho-291-15)

The 1945 yearbook for Canal High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-15/

doc Ramblings (1945) (ddr-densho-291-17)

The 1945 yearbook for Topaz High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-17/

img Onlooker (1943) (ddr-densho-291-6)

The 1943 yearbook for Amache Senior High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-6/

doc Tempo (1944) (ddr-densho-291-9)

The 1944 yearbook for the high school in Heart Mountain concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-9/

doc Tempo (1945) (ddr-densho-291-18)

The 1945 yearbook for Heart Mountain High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-18/

doc Documents related to schools and housing at Minidoka (ddr-densho-291-36)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-36/

doc Ramblings (1944) (ddr-densho-291-12)

The 1944 yearbook for Topaz High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-12/

doc Onlooker (1945) (ddr-densho-291-16)

The 1945 yearbook for Amache High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-16/

doc Victoria (1943) (ddr-densho-291-7)

The 1943 yearbook for Denson High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-7/

doc Memoirs (1943) (ddr-densho-291-5)

The 1943 yearbook for Hunt High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-5/

img El Chaparral (1943) (ddr-densho-291-41)

The 1943 yearbook for Poston Two High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-41/

doc Memoirs (1945) (ddr-densho-291-21)

The 1945 yearbook for Hunt High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-21/

doc Mojave Memo (1943) (ddr-densho-291-2)

The 1943 yearbook for Poston I Senior High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-2/

doc El Chaparral (1945) (ddr-densho-291-19)

The 1945 yearbook for Miles E. Cary High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-291-19/

img Class picture at Jerome concentration camp (ddr-densho-321-10)

Captioned: "Kayoka's class Denson 1944."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-321-10/

img School photo at Jerome concentration camp (ddr-densho-321-30)

Captioned: " Keiko."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-321-30/

img Easter card from camp school (ddr-densho-321-94)

Group picture, captioned: "A very happy easter, From Lillie Wettengel."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-321-94/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-30)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-30/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-36)

This page of the scrapbook shows documents from two distinct periods of Hisa's wartime life. At the top of the page is an invitation to a Goodbye party thrown at Tule Lake as people began to leave the camp. At the bottom is one of the forms Hisa had to turn into Tri-State High School in …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-36/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-29)

This scrapbook page contains more invitations to different social functions at Tule Lake concentration camp. There is also a program for the first commencement from Tri-State High School, the camp's high school.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-29/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-28)

Scrapbook contains several invitations to various social events at Tule Lake concentration camp including Nobuya Nimura's graduation program.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-28/

img Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-25)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-25/

doc "Relocation Center" composition (ddr-densho-334-1)

May Okano Sakuma's composition reflecting on her time at Minidoka concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-334-1/

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/

doc Jerome T. Light Dissertation, Vol. II (ddr-densho-327-2)

Volume II of Light's dissertation is the appendix for the dissertation.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-327-2/