Smithsonian SITES Traveling Exhibition

"Righting a Wrong" Japanese Americans and World War II

The SCMS Department & IZ Museum are please to present this accompanying poster exhibit from the Smithsonian SITES collection to further explore the Japanese American Experience during World War II.

In 1942, the U.S. government rounded up more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese
nationals living in the United States and sent them to incarceration camps. Forty years later, community
members pushed the nation to confront the wrong it had done—and to make it right.

By exploring this history and asking questions about the past, we discover interweaving stories of
oppression, perseverance, and triumph that help us better understand the choices we face today.

This exhibition is made possible by the Smithsonian SITES collection and the National Museum of American History

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