In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
They Called Us Enemy is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
(Publisher description)
They Called Us Enemy
By George Takei Justin Eisinger Steven Scott
Art By Harmony Becker
ISBN: 9781603094504
Top Shelf Productions, 2019
NFNT Age Recommendation: Teen (13-16)
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