Morris Edward Opler was an American anthropologist and advocate of Japanese-American civil rights. He was born in Buffalo, New York and was the older brother of Marvin Opler, an anthropologist and soc
During World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps in the United States, operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly
Tatsuro Masuda, a Japanese American, unfurled this banner at "Wanto Sho-Kai", 401-403 Eighth Street at Franklin Street in Oakland, California, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Dorothea Lange took this photograph 13 March 1942.
A child is "Tagged for evacuation", Salinas, California, May 1942. Photo by Russell Lee.
A Japanese American shop closing, Asahi Dye Works, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The notice on the front is a reference to Manzanar, Owens Valley being the first and one of the largest Japanese American detention centers.