About This Lesson The lesson is based on the National Register
of Historic Places files "Manzanar War Relocation Center" (with
photographs) and "Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery"
(with photographs); Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of
World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites written by
Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and
Richard W. Lord; and other related materials. The lesson was
written by Kathleen Hunter, an education consultant living in
Hartford, Connecticut. It was edited by Fay Metcalf, Marilyn
Harper, and the Teaching with Historic Places staff. TwHP is
sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training
Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park
Service. This lesson is one in a series that brings the
important stories of historic places into the classrooms across
the country. There has been a great deal of impassioned debate
about what to call the people who were relocated and the places
they were relocated to. This lesson will use