Museum Exhibit To Feature Japanese Farm labor Camps

A special exhibit marking America’s reaction to Pearl Harbor called  Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II will be on display at the Yakima Valley Museum from September 28, 2015 through January 16, 2016.The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission brings the displays and will feature a special public program on October 8, 2015 by OCHC president and Exhibit Curator, David Milholland.

Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese warplanes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order authorizing the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 U.S. residents of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei)--nearly two-thirds of them U.S. citizens--from the West Coast to concentration camps.

The exhibit details how between 1942 and 1944, some 33,000 individual contracts were issued for seasonal farm labor.

For more information on the coming exhibit - Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II , contact Jessica Knapp at Jessica@yakimavalleymuseum.orgor 509.248.0747.