Streaming into classrooms in May 2021, this Electronic Field Trip places students in the shoes of young Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from the West Coast after the United States’ entrance into World War II.

Seventy-five years ago, President Truman's administration finally closed the last of the "War Relocation Centers" and ended the incarceration of Japanese Americans that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor. While a series of legislative victories followed in the immediate postwar years, a decades-long Redress Movement led to passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and ultimately a formal apology and reparations for what these families endured.

During World War II, Sylvia Mendez and her family began a court battle that would culminate in ending legal segregation in California. This landmark case would later be used to help justify the "separate is unequal" ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case, which ultimately overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that made "separate but equal" the law of the land.