Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps
March 4 – October 1, 2023
Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps explores the experiences of Japanese American youth who asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of being imprisoned in World War II concentration camps and embarking on the universal journey into adolescence.
Through photographs, personal stories, and artifacts, Don’t Fence Me In reveals the strength and ingenuity of young Americans who came of age in the War Relocation Authority camps and the Crystal City Department of Justice internment camp. From volunteer projects and camping trips to social dances, scout trips, and sports leagues, they drew upon their own resilience and creativity to forge friendships and community in the face of abrupt upheaval and wrongful imprisonment in their youth.
Larger images available upon request.
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Community swing set in block 6H at Amache concentration camp near Granada, Colorado, 1942–1945
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Jack Muro (2012.2.721)
Boy Scouts from Rohwer concentration camp with Arkansas Scouts camping by Mississippi River. Summer 1943
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Mabel Rose Jamison (Jamie) Vogel, (88.25.58B)
Girl Scouts pose in front of their garden at Crystal City concentration camp in Texas
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Dr. Sumi Shimatsu (97.89.6)
“Fusako “Jonie” Aizawa stands by a barbed wire fence in an American concentration camp. Christmas 1944.
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Myrtle Joyce Barley Ward, (2003.12.14)
George Hosato Takei (far left) with brother Henry Hozumi, sister Nancy Reiko, and mother Fumiko Takei at Tule Lake concentration camp in California
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of George Takei (96.26.1)
Rams basketball team jersey from Topaz concentration camp in Utah
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Hozaki family (99.51.6A)
Two girls in front of volleyball net at Gila River concentration camp in Arizona
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Ida Yokogawa (95.40.3)
High School majorette in parade at Amache concentration camp in Granada, Colorado, 1942–1945
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Jack Muro (2012.2.786)
Guadalupe YMBA baseball team from Tule Lake concentration camp in California, 1944
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of James “Step” Tomooka and Family (98.342.2)
Peruvian Girl Scout troop from Crystal City internment camp in Texas, 1944
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Dr. Sumi Shimatsu (97.89.1)
Group of five young women from Los Angeles, California, posing with hands on hips with guard tower in background at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, ca. 1942–1945
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Mori Shimada (92.10.2AY)
Japanese American basketball team in Los Angeles, 1927
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of the Willie Funakoshi Family (93.76.54)
Boys playing basketball at Manzanar
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata (93.102.135)
Guadalupe YMBA baseball players from Tule Lake concentration camp in California, James “Step” Tomooka kneeling in center
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of James “Step” Tomooka and Family (98.342.7)
Sequoia Council Boy Scout flag
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Joseph D. Sasaki, OD (2003.87.4)
Bass drum—used by Amache Boy Scout drum and bugle corps in the Amache concentration camp near Granada, Colorado.
Japanese American National Museum, Gift of the Robert Uragami Family, (2007.41.1)