Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II: Images by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Other Government Photographers

by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, Michael Williams

It is the shame of America.

In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them lost a part of their lives.

Amazingly, the government hired famed photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and others to document the expulsion--from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991541863
• ISBN13: 9780991541867
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cityfiles Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 10.7"