Government & Propaganda
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Government & PropagandaUnanimous Save For One
Within hours of Pearl Harbor, American newspapers began describing a calm and united nation. They printed it on the same pages that carried the blackouts, the arrests, and the one member of Congress who voted no and was not allowed to say why.
Source · The Evening Star, December 6, 1941, p. 1 -
Government & PropagandaThe Christmas Edition
On December 6, 1942, military police shot twelve people at Manzanar. The camp's newspaper did not publish again for twenty days, and when it did, its front page named forty-three men who had come back from a work furlough.
Source · Manzanar Free Press, December 25, 1942, p. 1