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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doc Topaz High School graduation announcement (ddr-densho-392-77)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-392-77/

doc Topaz High School graduation announcement (ddr-densho-392-76)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-392-76/

doc Amache High School Onlooker yearbook (ddr-densho-390-150)

The 1944 edition of the Amache High School yearbook, Onlooker, belonging to Walter Matsuoka. Walter is included in the freshman class portraits. The yearbook includes several handwritten messages and signatures.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-390-150/

doc Walter Matsuoka's junior high school diploma (ddr-densho-390-18)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-390-18/

img Kindergarten class at Poston (ddr-densho-391-23)

Photograph of a Kindergarden class at Poston. Hatsuko Mary (Yoshioka) Higuchi is in the middle row on the far right, Etsuko Yoshioka in the front row on the far right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-391-23/

doc Kenneth Iyeki's Topaz High School diploma (ddr-densho-392-54)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-392-54/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-37)

This page of the scrapbook shows documents from two distinct periods of Hisa's wartime life. At the top is the form where Hisa formally requests to drop out of high school after her father is forced to move to the Santa Fe Department of Justice Internment Camp after being branded a trouble maker. While not directly …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-37/

doc Memoirs 1944 (ddr-densho-348-11)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-11/

doc Hunt High School 1943 Yearbook (ddr-densho-375-7)

Ray Kikoshima's 1943 Hunt High School yearbook. Front and back pages include many personalized notes and additional notes on individual photographs.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-375-7/

doc Pre-School Education in Manzanar Report (ddr-densho-402-6)

Description of preschool education in Manzanar including school housing, schedule, routine, parent organizations, teachers, and advantages.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-402-6/

doc Pre-School Education Report (ddr-densho-402-5)

This report on preschool education in Manzanar documents and appraises the nursery-kindergarten program. Contents include Preface; Introduction; Pre-School Staff; Organization of the Pre-School Program; The School Plant; A Day in the Pre-School; the Health Program in the Pre-Schools; Training of Pre-School Teachers; Parent Relationship Program; and the Pre-Schools in the Community.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-402-5/

doc Advice of Personnel Action (ddr-densho-402-4)

This document is about Marie A. Prichett's appointment as secondary school teacher at Manzanar in 1944.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-402-4/

img Photo of group of children (ddr-densho-399-14)

Caption on back: "Topaz nursery schl", Shizuko Sumi (3rd row/2nd from right)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-399-14/

img Photo of children seated at tables (ddr-densho-399-17)

Caption on back: "Mrs. Sumi" (Shizuko Sumi)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-399-17/

doc Title: Where do we go from here? (ddr-densho-408-9)

Address to 1945 Graduating class of Hunt High School at Minidoka

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-408-9/

doc Schools at the Granada Relocation Center (ddr-densho-381-42)

A paper debating if schools should be built at the Granada concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-42/

doc War Relocation Authority notice on evacuee requests for material from Chambers of Commerce and other local agencies (ddr-densho-381-21)

Myer addresses prejudiced responses to Japanese-American high school students' requests for statistical information about the New England area. Myer recommends that staff discourage direct correspondence between detainees and outside agencies.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-21/

doc Gila River Yearbook, "Year's Flight" (ddr-densho-382-20)

Butte High School 1943 Yearbook. Butte High School was the high school at Gila River.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-382-20/

doc Desert Sentinel, vol. 1, no. 8 (ddr-densho-382-17)

Newsletter from Gila River camp, published by the Journalism Class of Rivers High. Selected articles: "Student Council Install Officers" (p. 1); "Editorial Misconduct-Unnecessary" (p. 2); "Eagles Tie for Champs" (p. 4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-382-17/

doc Set of index cards with notes about futility of education and school in camp (ddr-densho-383-607)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-607/

doc Letter to Tamako Inouye from A.F. Carpenter, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington (ddr-densho-383-534)

Instructing Tamako what she needed to complete a course in mathematics begun earlier

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-534/

doc Memo to Tamako Inouye about completing her graduation requirements for a B.A. at the University of Washington (ddr-densho-383-539)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-539/

doc 1944 Poston High School Yearbook (ddr-densho-412-1)

Masao Roy Hayashi's 1944 high school yearbook "El Chaparal" from Poston High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-412-1/

doc Nursery School Measurements (ddr-densho-416-11)

Document from Poston Nursery School providing height and weight measurements for Donald Miyagi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-416-11/

img Masa Ogawa and Sandy Sandridge (ddr-densho-420-3)

Masa Ogawa nannied for Sandy Sandridge whose mother was Gladys Sandridge, a teacher living on site at Manzanar concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-420-3/