Asian American History

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki

The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida

Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo

I Am An American by Martha Brockenbrough with Grace Lin

Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

May 9, 1942

A crowd gathers to read the notification of the mass removal of Japanese Americans in San Francisco in 1942. The poster on the right is notifying all Japanese Americans living in San Mateo County to prepare for forced removal on May 9, 1942. Photo Credits: Library of Congress; and San Jose State University, Japanese-American Internment Research Collection.