Birth of an Activist
The Sox Kitashima Story

Birth of an Activist tells the inspiring story of Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima, a California-born, Japanese American woman whose name became synonymous with the redress and reparations campaign for Japanese Americans wrongfully incarcerated during World War II. From her childhood through World War II and the post-war years, to her transformation into a community leader and activist, Sox Kitashima's life journey will touch all readers.

Blossoms in the Desert
Topaz High School Class of 1945

Blossoms In The Desert - Topaz High Class of 1945 -Our Story in an American Concentration Camp, is the collective effort of members of the Topaz High School Class of 1945, which recounts the experiences of their growing up and receiving their entire high school education from September 1942-June 1945, within the confines of the Topaz Concentration Camp in Utah.

Building a Community
The Story of the Japanese Americans In San Mateo County

The San Mateo Japanese Americans built a unique community based on family, education, and enterprise that reflected their ethnic roots as well as their American experience. Through personal interviews and remembrances, Building A Community tells the story of the early days of the Japanese, their struggles to survive and flourish, their incarceration during World War II in imprisonment camps in the western United States, and rebuilding their lives after the war.

Free to Die for Their Country
The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II

IN THE SPRING OF 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, after stripping them of their livelihoods, liberty, and dignity the government demanded even more by drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these American citizens grudgingly complied with the draft, but several hundred refused and practiced a different sort of American, patriotism-the patriotism of protest.

Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of the men who rejected the government's demands.