Inside America's concentration camps : two centuries of internment and torture
(2010)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.5317/DICKERSON,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.5317/DICKERSON,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2010]
©2010
DESCRIPTION

xi, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781556528064 (hc.), 155652806X (hc.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Prologue : from sea to shining sea -- Nunna Dual Tsuny (the trail where they cried) -- The origins of internment in colonial America -- Walking the Trail of Tears -- Camps that will live in infamy -- Pearl Harbor under attack -- Executive order 9066 -- Manzanar's gateway to hell -- Life in an Arkansas swamp -- Eastward ho to the wild, wild west -- The Konzentrationslager blues -- Italian Americans dodge a bullet -- Jews turned away from a new promised land -- Finding redemption in a troubled land -- Prisoner, go home! -- Righting the wrongs -- Ask not for whom the bell tolls -- Modern day internment -- "Why is this thing happening in this country?" -- Which camp will you someday call home?

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