Preserves and shares history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.
Sep 5, 2022 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
This #LaborDay we’re highlighting some lessons in solidarity from Japanese and Mexican Americans’ 100+ years of shared farm labor history. 🧵 densho.org/catalyst/japan…
While the two groups were on opposing sides in many of these encounters, there were also remarkable instances of unity—like the multiracial union organizing that formed the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association in turn-of-the-century Oxnard, California.
Jun 12, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Fort Sill is a place layered in trauma. Japanese Americans were incarcerated there during WWII, and one inmate was shot & killed trying to escape. It also housed a Native American boarding school where children were separated from their families. time.com/5605120/trump-…
It also served as a Prisoner of War camp for members of the Chiricahua Apache tribe who were forcibly relocated from the Southwest to Fort Sill in 1894. okhistory.org/publications/e…
