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Among the letters Miss Breed wrote to the incarcerated San Diego youths, the only surviving one is written to Tetsuzo Hirasaki who was the oldest. Written on American Library Association letterhead, it has no date and the envelop has no address.

Kamishibai is a form of Japanese street theater (kami = paper; shibai = theatre).

San Diego High School senior Fusa Tsumagari wrote over 30 letters to heroic San Diego librarian Clara Breed during her incarceration.

At 21, Tetsuzo Hirasaki was the oldest of the incarcerated young adults who wrote to heroic San Diego librarian Clara Breed during his incarceration.

The Letters Project is a public archiving program by the San Diego Public Library to collect and archive the stories of San Diegans through the writing of letters.  Japanese American children from San Diego incarcerated in camps duri

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Lobby installation of a replica of a barrack from the Poston, AZ Incarceration Camp III, used to unlawfully incarcerate Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In celebration of the 2021 One Book One San Diego adult title selection Being Heumann by Judith Heumann, our exhibit "Patient No More" explores the history of disability civil rights and the fight for section 504 legislation.