![]() ![]() Courtesy of the Wing Luke Museum, as donated by Dan Woo Jim was an attorney: Didn’t they teach historical cases in law school? But how could I assume that? I had learned about internment not in my American history class at a Seattle high school but from my father, whose Japanese friends had disappeared one day from his fifth-grade class.Įast Kong Yick. As he read, I saw his face flush, starting at his neck and moving up his ears. He was a white man my age and had grown up on the West Coast. The guide then handed one boy a laminated copy of the order – the kids got frisky and played hot potato, barely touching the leaflet, which landed finally with another chaperone named Jim *. ![]() The propaganda rationale, disproven in the Korematsu case of 1983, was that anyone who shared ethnicity with the Japanese enemy must be a security risk. Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066, which gave the military permission to incarcerate 120,000 people – two-thirds of them American citizens of Japanese descent, one-third of them immigrants from Japan. After we sat down, he explained President Franklin D. ![]() Caught in traffic, I was a little late and rushed to follow the last student through the mustard-yellow door.įirst, a guide led us through a recreation of a Camp Harmony horse stall, one family’s home during the World War II internment of American Japanese. ![]() i I’d never been to the 40-year-old museum, located in a refurbished 1930s auto repair shop in the Chinatown-International District. Affiliated with the Smithsonian, it is the only community-sourced museum in the United States focused on the history of Pan-Asian Pacific Americans. In the fall of 2005, when our oldest son was twelve, I took an afternoon off from the startup where I worked as an executive to chaperone his class, 50 raucous sixth graders from Seattle Academy, on an excursion to the Wing Luke Museum. These stories, told by community members, emphasize experiences and narratives that may have been overlooked or misrepresented in our city. The Seattle Histories storytelling project highlights the places, people, and events that have shaped the history of Seattle’s communities. Historic preservation in Seattle begins with community. ![]()
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