Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II

The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) raises awareness of the experience of immigration into America through the Pacific of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The AIISF preserves and interprets this National Historic Landmark, which “reminds us of the complicated history of immigration in America.”
Resources include:
- “Immigrant Journeys,” curriculum guides for teachers grades 3 through 12.
- Articles on incorporating poetry into social studies education
- San Francisco Chronicle’s Education Series, a 5-part series that highlights the experiences of immigrant groups that passed through Angel Island.

Densho’s mission is to “preserve and share history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.” They provide access to an extensive collection of interviews, photographs, and other documents on immigration, family history, incarceration, and civil rights in the Japanese American community.
Resources include:
- Free multidisciplinary lessons introducing questions of civil liberties
- Online Densho Resource Guide to Media on the Japanese American Removal and Incarceration, providing access to books, films, plays, curriculum guides, and websites about the incarceration.

Collection of related resources, including a study guide to Farewell to Manzanar, current events lessons, and an on-demand professional learning webinar at facinghistory.org/japanese-incarceration.

Contains thousands of primary sources on the Japanese American incarceration during World War II drawing from institutions across California.

We help people understand the past in order to make sense of the present and shape a more humane future.

The mission of Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum is to steward America’s first aviation battlefield of World War II sharing the artifacts, personal stories, the impact and response to the December 7, 1941 attack and the Pacific region battles that followed, honoring those who have defended our freedom so we might educate and inspire future generations.