Understanding the Constitutional Injustice of Japanese American Incarceration

“One of the kids asked, ‘What did Grandpa do wrong? Why was he in prison?’' She realized these kids thought we were incarcerated because we committed a crime. Unless we speak up, they’re not going to know that what the government did was unconstitutional."

In 2015, the National Park Service awarded grants to 13 CSU campuses to digitize original documents related to the Japanese American Incarceration. Sacramento State’s collection, the Japanese American Archive Collection (JAAC), contains letters, pamphlets, photographs, and more, and is digitized for anyone to access online. Learn more here:

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