Puyallup Assembly Center
Families from the Seattle area were mainly sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center on the grounds of the Western Washington State Fairgrounds.[1] According to Floyd Schmoe, In Seattle, the orders…
The Cost of Resistance
Supporting the Nikkei during the internment was unpopular and viewed as anti-American. Rev. W. Sherman Burgoyne served as minister of the Asbury Methodist Church in Hood River, Oregon where approximately…
Voices of Protest
Nikkei Voices Rev. Daisuke Kitagawa spoke out against wartime injustices, asserting that his fellow Episcopal churchmen “opposed evacuation as a matter of principle, but nothing was done beyond that. .…