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.
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Tempo (1944) (ddr-densho-291-9)
The 1944 yearbook for the high school in Heart Mountain concentration camp.
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Class picture at Jerome concentration camp (ddr-densho-321-10)
Captioned: "Kayoka's class Denson 1944."
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Easter card from camp school (ddr-densho-321-94)
Group picture, captioned: "A very happy easter, From Lillie Wettengel."
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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 …
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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.
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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.