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Young boy holding hands of parent in Japanese-American internment camp

In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is actor George Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. American Book Award.

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott

Age Level:

Middle Grade

Genre:

Autobiography and Memoir

Published:

2019

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