An exploration of America's concentration camps from the perspective of a teenage Stanley Hayami, through text entries and illustrations in his diary, which he consistently maintained while detained at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Stanley Hayami, along with 120,000 other Japanese-Americans on the West Coast, were forcibly removed from their homes and, without due process of the law, imprisoned in ten concentration camps across America. This Learning Lab explores the experiences of Stanley Hayami, a teenager who kept a detailed diary of his time in the camp.

This Learning Lab collection was created by Carter Sun, a student in the summer 2022 Summer Affiliate Digital Learning and Engagement Internship, in partnership with Emerson Collective and the Japanese American National Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate based in Los Angeles, California.

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