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Chatham County students, in partnership with National Geographic, present research on Japanese American incarceration
Summary
Students from Chatham Central High and Bennett School presented a National Geographic-supported project documenting Japanese American incarceration during WWII, including survivor testimony and an origami-crane memorial; the board praised the student work and accepted a request to display the project at Chatham Central.
Amy King, an American history teacher at Chatham Central High School, and her students presented a yearlong National Geographic Explorer Educator Exchange project on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, documenting Japanese American incarceration during World War II and its continuing effects.
The students, who worked with National Geographic documentary photographer Haruka Sakaguchi, traced the national context from the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor through President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 and the relocation of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, noting that roughly two-thirds were U.S.…
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