HIST 1221 - NWC United States from 1865 - MCKINNEY AMY - NWC RESERVES

Sam Mihara was at the movies when the news broke: Japanese forces had bombed Pearl Harbor, leaving U.S. servicemen dead. After that day in December 1941, his world was never the same. No more John Wayne or Walt Disney; now, his life stacked up to buses and trains with armed guards for personal escorts as he paid the price for a crime he never committed. Because he was Japanese, he and his family were sentenced to mass imprisonment in a desolate Wyoming...

As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.Only after a serious...