Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience / edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: California Historical Society
Other Authors: Inada, Lawson Fusao
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : San Francisco, Calif. : Heyday Books ; California Historical Society, [2000], ©2000.
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Physical Description:xxiii, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The day we left / Ben Iijima
  • Editorials in the wake of Pearl Harbor
  • Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor / Clay H. Musick
  • Pearl Harbor remembered / Kay Uno
  • The total community / Ron Dellums
  • War comes to the church door / Eleanor Breed
  • Can't tell / Nellie Wong
  • from I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
  • Photo essay : an uncertain future
  • from Desert exile / Yoshiko Uchida
  • Letters from a Justice Department camp / Isohei Hatashita
  • from Citizen 13660 / Minʹe Okubo
  • from Stray clouds / Toyo Kazato
  • from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
  • Photo essay : how I spent the war
  • A far country : poems from the Arkansas camps
  • from To the stars / George Takei
  • A teacher at Topaz / Eleanor Gerard Sekerak
  • A young Nisei's diary / Stanley Hayami
  • Recollections of Heart Mountain / Peter Simpson
  • Statement to the Commission / Elaine Black Yoneda
  • Insufficient care / Mabel Ota
  • Winter night sentry : poems from the Justice Department camps
  • from Hawaii end of the rainbow / Kazuo Miyamoto
  • Autobiography of an Italian internee / Ezio Pinza
  • from Adios to tears / Seiichi Higashide
  • A WRA Center lexicon of Japanese American terms
  • Yule greetings, friends! / Globularius Schraubi
  • The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto
  • One happy family / Toshio Mori
  • A thousand stitches / Henry Sugimoto
  • A challenge to American sportsmanship / Eleanor Roosevelt
  • from The betrayed / Hiroshi Kashiwagi
  • Campus report / Lillian Ota
  • Preface to No-no boy / John Okada
  • from Beyond loyalty / Minoru Kiyota
  • Draft resisters at Heart Mountain / Frank Seishi Emi
  • Poetic reflections of the Tule Lake internment camp / Violet de Cristoforo
  • No flower in vase : poems from Tule Lake
  • A Nisei requests repatriation
  • Presidential statement / Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • from Journey to Washington / Daniel Inouye
  • Action from a sergeant's diary / Min Hara
  • One replacement's story / Stanley Izumigawa
  • Letter to father / George Saito
  • from Light one candle / Solly Ganor
  • What flower worth the pain.