When The Emperor Was Divine

XX min read

Author(s)	Julie Otsuka
Illustrator(s)
Age Group	15 and up
Publisher	Anchor
ISBN	978-0385721813
Year	2003

This book tells the story of a Japanese American family's story of internment in a Utah enemy alien camp during World War II. In 1942, the two children and their mother are forced to leave their Berkeley home and spend three years in a dusty, barren desert camp. Their father was previously taken from their home one night by the FBI and was being held in New Mexico. After the war, the family returns to Berkeley to their now vandalized home. They struggle to adjust to post-war life and the hostility they continue to face.

Monthly Featured Book

Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington

By Michael G. Long

Bayard Rustin was a "troublemaker." He spent his life disrupting racism and prejudice with nonviolent direct action. He organized protests against war, nuclear weapons, racial segregation and discrimination. He was a friend and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and he was unapologetically gay and Black. When Bayard and his mentor, A. Philip Randolph, set out to organize the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bayard was targeted by those who wished to see the movement fail. But Bayard Rustin would not be stopped. With the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, Bayard organized the largest protest in civil rights history.

Learn more