August 10, 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which offered reparations to Japanese Americans detained in internment camps during World War II. The California State Library’s California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) provided grants to publish the following books related to the internment and offers them free of charge to libraries:
Blossoms in the Desert, ed. by Darrell Hamamoto. [S.l]: Topaz High School Class of 1945, c2003.
Teenagers share their memories of living in the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah.
Lowery, Margaret. 39 Months in Tule Lake. [S.l.]: Xlibris Corporation, c2004.
Diary and notes of a non-Japanese American who sought an administrative position at the Tule Lake Internment Camp in order to help the internees.
Please email requests to CCLPEP at cclpep@library.ca.gov and provide a contact person’s name, library name and address, name of the book, and number of copies requested.
For more information, contact Christopher Berger at (916) 653-8313 or email at cberger@library.ca.gov, or Linda Springer at (916) 651-6509 or email at lspringer@library.ca.gov.