Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Library Display -- Behind Barbed Wire: The Story of the Internment of Japanese Americans in 1942

The current library display, created by Mary Kira, details the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. Approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans were held in ten internment camps from May 1942 to January 1945. The display describes life at the various camps and features photographs by noted photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and Tōyō Miyatake, who was interned at the Manzanar relocation camp.

Miyatake, an accomplished photographer before the war, smuggled in a lens, and with a homemade camera, was able to document life inside the camps. Also featured in the display are drawings by internees and reproductions of camp newspapers, as well as information about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit composed of Americans of Japanese descent, who volunteered to fight in World War II, despite the fact that many of their relatives and friends were held in internment camps.





New Books at EJA

Come check out the new books at the Escondido Center Library.  Here are just a few of the new books available:


Food and Nutrition Controversies Today:  A Reference Guide
By Myrna Chandler Goldstein
Call Number: TX357 .G5745 2009


Boots on the Ground by Dusk : My Tribute to Pat Tillman
By Mary Tillman
Call Number: GV939 .T49 T55 2008


Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
By Michael J. Fox
Call Number: PN2308 .F69 A3 2009


Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash
By Edward Humes
Call Number: TD788 .H86 2012