Existing comment:
"My grandfathers left little behind in Japan; both second sons of peasant farmers, they had no claim to family rice plots. Yet in California they discovered Alien Land laws of 1913 and 1920 that prevented ‘Orientals' from land purchases, singling out the immigrants from Asia and condemning a generation to life as laborers. But they stayed, working the fields for strangers. . . . They sacrificed so the next generation could have opportunity."
-- David Mas Masumoto, 2002
The Shibuya family of Mountain View, California, 1942
Students at Raphael Weill Public School, 1942 |