Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center

by Louis Fiset

Book Overview

This book is the first full portrait of a single assembly center--located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup, outside Seattle--that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to their transfer to a relocation center during World War II. Gathering archival evidence and eyewitness accounts, Louis Fiset reconstructs the events leading up to the incarceration as they unfolded on a local level: arrests of Issei leaders, Nikkei response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076729
• ISBN13: 9780252076725
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"