Instructions Poster graduation fighting their way up swift-running

fighting their way up swift-running rivers

This is the collective effort of members of the Topaz High School Class of 1945

Using historical footage and interviews from artists who were interned

Running time: 91 min

Paper: 273 pp

Instructions Poster graduation fighting their way up swift-runningSoon after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, this Civilian Exclusion Order and others like it, began appearing in public places all along the West Coast to notify people of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal from their homes. The orders instructed people to pack only what they could carry. Most of them suffered tremendous economic losses in addition to the humiliation of an unjust incarceration. To