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 1944 Tempo (Heart Mountain High School Yearbook) (ddr-ohs-1-25)

Yearbook was the property of Rayko Yabe.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ohs-1-25/

img Heart Mountain Graduation (ddr-ohs-1-102)

Caption on Photo: Baccalaureate Service for Graduating class of 1944, May, Heart Mt Camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ohs-1-102/

img Senior Class Play (ddr-ohs-1-88)

The back of the photo includes handwritten names of cast. Caption on Photo: Cast of Mumbo Jumbo Senior Class Play - 1943. Heart Mountain (maybe Rayko Yabe 2nd left).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ohs-1-88/

doc Report Card (ddr-ohs-1-41)

Miyuki Yabe school report card from Heart Mountain High School in 1942-1943.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ohs-1-41/

img Heart Mountain Graduation (ddr-ohs-1-101)

Caption on Photo: Baccalaureate Service for Graduating class of 1944, May, Heart Mt Camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ohs-1-101/

img Senior picture (ddr-densho-480-138)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-138/

img Martha Fukuzawa senior picture (ddr-densho-480-137)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School. Includes handwritten letter on the back.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-137/

img Martha Fukuzawa knitting a sweater (ddr-densho-480-136)

Caption: "Amazing Toru" Caption: "Just Hard Working (?) Mart!" Caption: "Believe it or not Toru, the sweater I have on for my grad. Photo is the same sweater crapped here -- darn good, eh? Like h-- (heck!)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-136/

img Senior picture (ddr-densho-480-132)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-132/

img Adult Education Gila Rivers (ddr-densho-480-170)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-170/

img Eddie Makimoto senior picture (ddr-densho-480-130)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-130/

img Senior picture (ddr-densho-480-129)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-129/

doc Masa Miyoshi's Adult Education Journal (ddr-densho-480-172)

Journal includes class notes from adult education program, journal entries, correspondence, and medical exemption notes.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-172/

img Senior picture (ddr-densho-480-128)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-128/

img Isao Yukawa senior picture (ddr-densho-480-131)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-131/

img Nob Oki (ddr-densho-480-134)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-134/

img Senior picture (ddr-densho-480-127)

Graduation photo of student from Gila River Butte High School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-127/

img Shitamoto Sewing School graduates (ddr-densho-363-54)

A group photograph of all the graduates of Shitamoto Sewing School at Heart Mountain.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-363-54/

doc Tule Lake Directory and Camp News (ddr-densho-520-1)

A book complied by Harry Inukai and published in May 1988. It includes a directory of Tule Lake concentration camp between May 1942 through September 1943 including barrack addresses. The second half of the book includes camp news in the following categories: Shows and Entertainment, Social Highlights, Vital Statistics, Departures, Arrivals and Transfers, Service News, Farm …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-520-1/

img Graduation portrait of Naomi Kitagawa (ddr-densho-539-20)

Inscription on photo front: For Yori and Sab - Love Naomi '45

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-539-20/

doc Heart Mountain: A School Behind Barbed Wire (ddr-chijacl-1-187)

Memoir of time teaching at Heart Mountain published in the Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 27, Number 1

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-chijacl-1-187/

doc Crystal City graduation and reunion materials (ddr-densho-537-125)

A collection of materials related to Satomi Koga's high school experience at Crystal City and a reunion held in in 1988, gathered together in a black binder.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-537-125/