<div dir="ltr">FYI<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anselmo Villanueva</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselmo.villanueva@gmail.com">anselmo.villanueva@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:58 AM<br>Subject: [UWMOSAIC] Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II - Eugene OR<br>To: <a href="mailto:uwmosaic@u.washington.edu">uwmosaic@u.washington.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br>Through May 25 (Tue-Sat), 10am-4pm, Lane County Historical Museum (740 West 13th Avenue,<br>Eugene, Oregon). View “Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II,” an exhibit that tells the story of Japanese Americans who worked as seasonal farm laborers, many in the sugar beet industry, during World War II. The display features images from federal photographer Russell Lee’s documentation of Japanese-American farm labor camps near the towns of Nyssa in Oregon and Rupert, Shelley, and Twin Falls in Idaho; interpretative text panels; and a short documentary film featuring firsthand accounts about life in the camps.<br><br>Information: <a href="tel:(541)%20682-4242" value="+15416824242" target="_blank">(541) 682-4242</a> <a href="http://www.lchm.org" target="_blank">www.lchm.org</a> <a href="http://www.uprootedexhibit.com" target="_blank">www.uprootedexhibit.com</a><br><br><br><img class="m_9155106728947499102m_-2486867597609703244gmail-aligncenter m_9155106728947499102m_-2486867597609703244gmail-size-full m_9155106728947499102m_-2486867597609703244gmail-wp-image-2003" src="http://lchm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Uprooted_Exhibit_2017.jpg" alt="" style="margin-right:0px" height="167" width="532"><br><br><h2><b>About Uprooted Exhibit</b></h2>
<p>“Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II” is
a traveling exhibit produced the by the Oregon Cultural Heritage
Commission. It features forty-five images, taken by Farm Security
Administration photographer Russell Lee near the communities of Nyssa,
Oregon and Rupert, Shelley, and Twin Falls, Idaho in the summer of 1942,
three text panels, and a short video featuring excerpts from oral
history interviews with people who lived in the camps. The exhibit
examines farm labor camps during the war and the use of Japanese
Americans as a labor source, specifically in the sugar beet industry.</p>
<p>Between 1942 and 1944, some 33,000 individual contracts were issued
to those Japanese Americans who left concentration camps to work in
seasonal farm labor. The Nyssa camp, the first organized for Japanese
American laborers during the war, opened on May 20, 1942. It held 350
individuals at its peak, many of whom lived and worked in eastern Oregon
till the war’s end, rather than being incarcerated at Minidoka or other
concentration camps. The overall Japanese American farm labor camp
experience during the war has been little documented.</p>
<p>“Uprooted” is funded, in part, by grants from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, <a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/hpg/JACS/index.html" target="_blank">Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program</a>; the <a href="http://www.idahohumanities.org/" target="_blank">Idaho Humanities Council</a>, a State-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fred W. Fields Fund of <a href="http://www.oregoncf.org/" target="_blank">The Oregon Community Foundation</a>; the <a href="http://www.malheurculturaltrust.org/" target="_blank">Malheur County Cultural Trust</a>; and the Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust.</p>
<p>Since 1993, <a href="http://www.ochcom.org/index.html" target="_blank">Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission</a>
has been a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. First created in 1988,
we just completed our first quarter century. Our mission is to
discover, celebrate, and commemorate Oregon’s diverse literary and
cultural legacy through media, memorials, and public events. Our
programs and projects reflect the Oregon country in its wide-ranging
historical sense and have reached audiences throughout and beyond the
Pacific Northwest.</p>
<h3><b>About Russell Lee</b></h3>
<p>Photographer Russell Lee (1903–1986) is best recognized for his work
with the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which from 1935 to 1944
produced approximately 175,000 black-and-white film negatives and 1,600
color photographs. During his tenure with the federal agency, Lee became
the most prolific FSA photographer, producing nearly 5,000 images,
including several hundred images of the Japanese American wartime
experience. Between April and August of 1942, he documented the
“evacuation” of individuals and families in California as well as four
farm labor camps in Oregon and Idaho. His latter work is featured in the
“Uprooted” exhibit. According to Lee’s biographer, F. Jack Hurley, he
abhorred the government’s treatment of Japanese Americans during the war
and wanted to document what he described as a very dark period in
American history.</p>
<h3><b>Interested in hosting the exhibit?</b></h3>
<p>The exhibit is available on loan to interested cultural and historical institutions. Please contact us at <a href="mailto:uprootedexhibit@gmail.com" target="_blank">uprootedexhibit@gmail.com</a> to learn more about how to host the exhibit.</p>
<h3><b>Have information about farm labor camp residents? </b></h3>
<p>If you know someone who lived in farm labor camps during World War II
or have any information about the camps you would like to share, please
contact us at <a href="mailto:uprootedexhibit@gmail.com" target="_blank">uprootedexhibit@gmail.com</a>.</p><br></div>
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