San Joaquin Valley Japanese Americans

This digital collection features digitized newsletters from incarceration camps, photographs from the Japanese Americans in World War II and TOMO Foundation collections, as well as other digitized materials from those collections as well as the Violet de Cristoforo and Walter E. Pollock collections. These materials together showcase a wide variety of experiences of Japanese Americans from the 1920s through the present day, demonstrating how Alien Land Laws, the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and its impacts, and efforts by the Japanese American community after the war to petition for redress, educate Americans on what happened and prevent a similar event from ever occurring again have affected Japanese Americans through the generations.