{"url_title":"A Circle of Freedom: Lost and Restored (exhibition)","title_sort":"acircleoffreedomlostandrestoredexhibition","links":{"json":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/A%20Circle%20of%20Freedom:%20Lost%20and%20Restored%20(exhibition)/","html":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/A%20Circle%20of%20Freedom:%20Lost%20and%20Restored%20(exhibition)"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:17:01","title":"A Circle of Freedom: Lost and Restored (exhibition)","body":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Exhibitions\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   Name:A Circle of Freedom: Lost &amp; Restored;\nFirstDate:March 2006;\nFinalDate:;\nLocation:;\nOrganization:History Museum of Hood River County; \nCurator:Connie Nice;\nProducer:;\nKeyStaff:;\nWebsite:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n  <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n  <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n   <p>\n    RGMediaType:exhibitions;\nTitle:A Circle of Freedom: Lost and Restored;\nCreators:History Museum of Hood River County;\nInterestLevel:Grades 6-8; Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Importance of community;\nGenre:History;\nPoV:;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Limited availability;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:Hood River, Oregon;\nChronology:Late 1800s to 1940s;\nFacility:;\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Exhibition at the History Museum of Hood River County on the Japanese American experience in Hood River, Oregon. Instigated by Museum Coordinator Connie Nice once she learned of the of the wartime incarceration of local Japanese Americans and the particularly virulent opposition to their postwar return, the exhibition has the support of the local community. The small exhibition included four sections: \"Our Lives Before,\" \"Our Lives Removed,\" \" Our Lives in Camp,\" and \"Our Lives in Service.\" Included in the exhibition are documents from the local American Legion chapter, which made national headlines in 1944 when it removed the names of Nisei soldiers from a local \"roll of honor.\" The exhibition subsequently became a semi-permanent part of the museum.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Tamura, Linda.\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295992099/nisei-soldiers-break-their-silence/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     <i>\n      Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River\n     </i>\n     .\n    </a>\n    Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20260505201701\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.016 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 210/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 3925/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 807/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   10.786      1 -total\n 36.35%    3.921      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 21.52%    2.321      1 Template:Published\n 20.59%    2.221      1 Template:Databox-Exhibitions\n 20.24%    2.183      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3262-0!canonical and timestamp 20260505201701 and revision id 38913\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>","categories":["http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Chroniclers/"],"sources":[],"coordinates":{},"authors":["http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Brian%20Niiya/"],"ddr_topic_terms":[],"prev_page":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/A%20Century%20of%20Change:%20The%20Memoirs%20of%20Nellie%20Yae%20Sumiye%20Nakamura%20from%201902%20to%202002%20(book)/","next_page":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/A%20Crossroad%20Called%20Manzanar%20(film)/"}