Freedom For All

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Freedom For All ?
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• The United States Constitution guarantees
  liberty and justice for all
• Many Americans have fought and died for this
  principle.

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Many famous Americans expressed this view

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• True peace is not merely the absence of tension
  it is the presence of justice
• Clarence Darrow
• You can only protect your liberties in this
  world by protecting the other man's freedom. You
  can only be free if I am free.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• When will our consciences grow so tender that we
  will act to prevent human misery rather than
  avenge it?

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We have condemned those who sought to destroy
freedom and justice for all.

• Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
• Thou shalt not be a victim.
• Thou shalt not be a perpetrator.
• Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
• Friedrich Von Schiller
• The history of the world is
• the worlds court of justice.

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But in a dark time for our nation, our fear led
us to act like those we so easily condemned .

• Germany locked the Jews up in
• concentration camps.
• Millions of Jews were executed.

• Through fear stemming from Japans attack on
  Pearl Harbor, America locked the Japanese up in
  relocation camps.
• None of these people was executed, but many died
  there.

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• Jews were marched by German
• soldiers into ghettos, and later
• to concentration camps
• Personal belongings were
• stripped from
• Mothers watched their children
• suffer and die
• Many children were snatched
• from their parents

• Japanese-Americans were ordered to report
  relocation camps
• They were loaded onto trains and forced to make
  their homes there in
• crowded conditions.

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• Jews were forced to work to
• support the German government.
• Conditions in the camps were inhuman
• After the Allied troops liberated the Jews,
  many children were left with no family to care
  for them

• Japanese-Americans were allowed
• to work at the relocation camps
• The work in the camps helped them
• survive
• After World War II these Americans citizens were
  expected to return to lives and homes which no
  longer existed

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• The American government never
• executed or tortured the Japanese-
• Americans in these camps.
• Families were provided basic
• housing and allowed to stay
• together.
• Children continued their education
• in school.
• There were even sports activities
• provided, which helped create a
• sense of everyday normalcy.
• But

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these were AMERICAN citizens!
Guilty only of being of Japanese ancestry,
facing the fear and prejudice of a nation at war.
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Will we make the same mistakes again? Have we
failed to learn from our mistakes?
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Essential Question- How does injustice against a
specific group affect the freedoms of all people
in a society?
For more information/activities about the
relocation experience, go to http//www.angelfire.
com/sc3/patton/webquest.htm