Heart Mountain Internment Camp
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor during World War 2, the United States removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent...
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Wyoming's
Examining Ethnic Injustice
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
-Martin Luther King Jr: Letter from Birmingham, Alabama Jail, April 16, 1963.
Human Colors
PHOTO CITATION
B. Ten Members of the Black 14. Laramie, 1969.
Bill Monbo Papers Folder 1, Collection 09982
About
This project attempts to examine ethnic injustice in the state of Wyoming throughout its history and how these events influence inequities and discrimination at large. We specifically focus on African American individuals, Native Americans, and Japanese Americans in relevance to events that are specific to their oppression.
Our research is analyzed through multiple artifacts that illuminate the struggles of these individuals including, the Black 14 event films and records, Japanese internment camp photographs, and Shoshoni boarding school newspaper articles.
Shoshoni Mission School Box 3, Folder 3
All photos from American Heritage Center; University of Wyoming
Rustad, I. (1960). Civil rights movement and life in the American South. photograph.
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