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Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar. By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. Discussion. Which of people's rights should be protected by law? Under what conditions, if any, might it be justifiable to violate a citizen's legal rights?

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Farewell to Manzanar

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  1. Farewell to Manzanar By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston

  2. Discussion • Which of people's rights should be protected by law? • Under what conditions, if any, might it be justifiable to violate a citizen's legal rights? • What should people do if they feel that the government is violating their rights? What if they feel that the government is violating the rights of others?

  3. Author • Autobiography describing the life of Jeanne Houston’s Japanese-American family. • She begins her story on December 7, 2941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the immediate aftermath, which marked the beginning of her family’s struggle against the fear and prejudice sweeping American. • After her family is taken away accused of spying, the rest of the family is forced to move to the Japanese-American interment camp, Manzanar. • Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States

  4. Japanese-American Internment Camp

  5. Homework • Due: Monday, April 29, 2013 • Read Part I – Chapters 1 -5 • Pages 3 -46

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