The Eagles of Heart Mountain
The Heart Mountain Eagles were an all-Japanese American football team that played and defeated outside Wyoming high schools while imprisoned in a World War II incarceration camp.
Books & Authors
Michi Nishiura Weglyn
Michi Nishiura Weglyn spent her teenage years behind barbed wire at Gila River. Decades later, urged by her Holocaust survivor husband, she exposed the government’s lies about Japanese American incarceration in, “Years of Infamy,” a book that helped spark the redress movement.
Susan H Kamei
In “When Can We Go Back to America?,” author Susan H. Kamei gives voice to Japanese Americans whose lives were uprooted by incarceration during World War II, including her own family. Their stories reveal the enduring power of memory and justice.
Together in Manzanar by Tracy Slater
During World War II, one Jewish woman volunteered to be incarcerated in a concentration camp.