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Dear Miss Breed
Series Title:Once Upon a Camp Video Series
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Japanese American National Museum
Media Type:Videocassette
Release Date:2001
Audience:Elementary Education
Running Time:13 min.
Physical Description:sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 teacher's guide (56 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.)
Language:English
Author:Directed by Veronica Ko. Produced by Jennifer Kim
Japanese American National Museum with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in conjunction with the Alhambra School District
Japanese American National Museum with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in conjunction with the Alhambra School District; Directed by Veronica Ko. Produced by Jennifer Kim
Resource Library Number:AAV 29
Subject:Diaspora and Ethnicity
History
Politics and Government
Subheading:Discrimination and Racism
History, 1900-1950
Human Rights
Japanese
Japanese Internment
Military or Armed Conflict
Minority groups
WWII
Region:East Asia
Immigration/Diaspora
Country:Japan



Abstract:

Tells the real life story of how a librarian from San Diego Public Library became a hero to Japanese American youth in one of America's concentration camps. While others turned their backs, children's librarian Clara Breed spoke out against the injustice of the incarceration. She corresponded with young people who were sent away to camp and became a sounding board for their thoughts, feelings, frustrations and dreams. Set against sweeping visuals of camp life documented by rare home movies, excerpts from some of the 250 letters Miss Breed saved from wartime correspondences with the students present an ardent chronology of the young inmates’ upheaval, incarceration and eventual resettlement through their own words. || Suggested grades: 6-8. || AWARDS: 34th Annual Worldfest Houston, Special Jury Award, Grand Prize nomination, Gold Award, Historical, 2001; Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Honorable Mention, 2000




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