Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp

by Michael L. Cooper

Book Overview

In this close look at the first relocation camp built for Japanese evacuees living on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, social historian Michael Cooper makes extensive use of the actual words--from diaries, journals, memoirs, and news accounts--of the people who were held behind barbed wire in the high California desert. Many were American citizens who felt betrayed by their country. They had to leave their jobs, their homes, and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618067787
• ISBN13: 9780618067787
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great!!!

I recently began a paper dealing with a civil rights topic. While researching, I became interested in the Japanese internment of the 1940's. Although much can be learned about the internment from articles and other books, the pictures in this book are "worth 1,000 words." They photographs give a clear understanding of what life in the camps must have been like. I highly reccomend this book to history buffs, photography buffs, and those interested in civil rights issues.Enjoy