In Winter 2020, Highline College will partner with Seattle Pacific University (SPU), the King County Library System (KCLS) and other institutions to host the NEA Big Read King County (click link to view full schedule) series of events on campus. SPU and Highline College received a $15,000 NEA grant to bring the Big Read author, Julie Otsuka, to speak at both campuses. This guide provides resources about Japanese Americans during WWII. For more information please visit the Library Research Guide dedicated to Big Read 2020 by clicking the link below.
Beyond Barbed Wire: Untold Stories of American Courage by 
Day of Independence: A Short Film on the Japanese American Internment by 
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman behind the Symbol by 
Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story by 
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu story by 
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 by 
Baseball Saved Us by 
Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress by 
Child Prisoner in American Concentration Camps by 
Coming Home from Camp, and Other Poems by 
Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle by 
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese Amerian Experience During and After the World War II Internment by 
Gasa-Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence by 
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by 
The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in The 1940s: Literature for the High School Classrooms by 
In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story by 
Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans by 
Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II by 
Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration by 
They Called Us Enemy by 
Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow by 
Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment by 
Desert Exil: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by 
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice by 
Experiences of Japanese American Women During and after World War II by 
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration by 
Looking after Minidoka: An American Memoir by 
A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi V. United States by 
A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America by 
