#AlwaysRemember #EO9066 #Korematsu #JACL #HeartMountain #Manzanar #GilaRiver #Jerome #TuleLake #Rohwer #Minidoka #Honouliuli

#AlwaysRemember #NoNoBoy #EO9066 #Manazanar #TuleLake #HeartMountain #GilaRiver #Jerome #Rohwer #Honouliuli #JACL

#AlwaysRemember #EO9066 #TuleLake #HeartMountain #Jerome #Rohwer #Manzanar #Honouliuli #Amache

#OTD in 1904, #BenjiOkubo was born. A gifted painter and teacher whose career was interrupted by WWII incarceration at #HeartMountain. Even behind barbed wire, he continued teaching art classes, refusing to let injustice extinguish creativity.
#mineokubo #japaneseamerican

#AlwaysRemember #NeverAgain #EO9066 #HeartMountain #TuleLake #GilaRiver #Jerome #Manzanar #Rohwer #Poston #Minidoka #Honouliuli

Mr. Hoshizaki was a #HeartMountain #incarceration camp draft resister who was tried for refusing the draft while he and otherJapanese Americans were impressed in concentration camps. He later served in the Korean War.

More than a museum, the Center helps preserve stories of injustice, resilience, and civil rights — so future generations can learn what happened and why it matters.

#QuietAmericans #HeartMountain #InterpretiveCenter #JapaneseAmericanHistory #WWIIHistory #NeverForget #OnThisDay

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#OTD in 1942, the #HeartMountain WRA camp opened in northwestern #Wyoming. Over 10,000 people from #LosAngeles, #SanFranciscoBay Area, #Oregon and #Yakima, Washington were held here.

#japaneseamerican #wwii

🎨 Happy Birthday to Rokuro "Bob" Kuwahara! Born Aug 12, 1901 🎂
This #JapaneseAmerican animation pioneer worked on Disney's #SnowWhite, created the beloved #Hashimoto-san series, and broke barriers despite facing WWII internment.

#issei #heartmountain

If they knew his birth name, ICE would roll him up too. #EO9066 #Minidoka #HeartMountain #TuleLake #Rohwer #Manznar #Jerome

Reflections from Heart Mountain Japanese Relocation Center

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We visited the Heart Mountain World War II Japanese Confinement Camp today by Powell, Wyoming.
www.heartmountain.org

#history #HardHistory #ww2
#HeartMountain #AlligatorAlcatraz #ConCW #HealOurCulture

Years later, they even worked together to help pass the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

It may have been the least likely friendship.
Yet it was the most American friendship.

#MinetaSimpson #HeartMountain #JapaneseAmericanHistory #CivilLibertiesAct #QuietAmericans #AAPIHistory #HiddenHistory

July 24, 2025 — The 3-day Annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage begins

Once a site of confinement. Now a place of remembrance.
The Heart Mountain Pilgrimage begins today, honoring those who endured, resisted, or never made it out.

#HeartMountain #JapaneseAmericanHistory #IncarcerationCamps #NeverForget

#alwaysremember #heartmountain #gilariver #rowher #tulelake #manzanar #jerome #EO9066

Mineta didn’t just break barriers. He outlasted fear, panic, and hate — even when it wasn’t popular. And his legacy is here to stay.

#NormanMineta #JapaneseAmericanHistory #AAPIHistory #WWIIHistory #HeartMountain #CabinetHistory #September11 #CivilRights #QuietAmericans #EnemyChild #NeverForget

#alwaysremember #Rowher #HeartMountain #TuleLake #GilaRiver #Manzanar #Jerome

#Rowher #TuleLake #HeartMountain #Manzanar #Jerome #AlwaysRemember #NoNoBoy

And for that, they were sent to federal prison.
While they were being incarcerated.

#HeartMountain #DraftResistance #WWIIHistory #JapaneseAmericanHistory #CivilRights #MassIncarceration #LoyaltyQuestionnaire #ConscientiousObjectors

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura Grandmother I imagine the delicate pucker of her mouth gaping like a wound. Her sokuhatsu updo, an oily black tangle on a dusty pillow. On May 24, 1945, eighteen years before I was born, Suyeme Kimura...

Two new poems out in Diode Poetry Journal (@diodeeditions.bsky.social)!
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#tulelake #heartmountain #minnienegoro #japaneseamericanincarceration #japaneseamericaninternment #dontrepeathistory #dueprocess #fairnessforall #socialjustice #wechoosewelcome

I find this apology by Rep. Winter to be too little, too late. He knew “Jap” was/is offensive. #aapi #apida #japaneseamericaninternment #heartmountain

Wyoming lawmaker uses slur for Japanese people before visiting Heart Mountain internment site - WyoFile Rep. John Winter made the remark while discussing logistics for a tour of the former internment camp, where more than 14,000 Japanese Americans were held against their will during World War II.

Wyoming's Rep. John Winter used a derogatory term for Japanese individuals before visiting the Heart Mountain site, where over 14,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly detained during WWII. #HeartMountain #Awareness

From perspective inside tent: Silhouettes of cowboys and a woman in a dress walking by a canvas tent illuminated by the sun.

Scene from a cowboy wedding, shadow and light layers. #heartmountain #fall #onlytheshadowknows

#manzanar #heartmountain #gilariver #tulelake #rohwer #poston #jerome #honouliuli #alwaysremember

Honored to visit a magnificent exhibition this week on the life and work of Minnie Negoro, uplifted by her past students, Walter McConnell and Denise Pelletier and co-curated by UConn professors Dr. Hana Maruyama and Dr. Jason Chang.
#internationalwomensday #minnienegoro #ceramics #heartmountain

#OTD in 1944, the #HeartMountainFairPlayCommittee held it's first public meeting.

#japaneseamerican #draftresistance #heartmountain #nisei #leavenworth #McNeilIsland #wwii #emi #nakadate #hoshizaki #okamoto #civilrights

My dude did a thing that's on the official NFL Network channel. Whoa! #HeartMountain

Also haunting.

Photographs by Bill Manbo while he and his family were incarcerated at #HeartMountain starting in 1942. Images are from Obon (Ghost) Festival in the camps, and of Bill Manbo’s young son.

From COLORS OF CONFINEMENT by Bill Manbo (@CDSDuke Books + @uncpressblog)