Emotionally, politically and racially charged, the issue of the Japanese-American Relocation during World-War II is an event that just won't go away. Claims have been made that American citizens were imprisoned against their will in "concentration camps," and that the entire fiasco was motivated by war time hysteria, racial bigotry, and opportunistic businesses that wanted to snap up property left behind by the evacuees. Counter claims have suggested that there was complete documented evidence to justify an evacuation of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals from the West coast of the United States, and that no American citizen was detained against their will by their own government. Tempers flare and positions become intractable.

When searching for truth, sorting the gold from the garbage is a difficult undertaking. Award winning researcher and writer Lillian Baker produced books that clearly show (warts and all) documented evidence of exactly what happened. Each book has a bibliography that will clearly inform all curious researchers. Her Pulitzer Prize nominated work is SO important that it resides in a special archive set aside at The Lillian Baker Collection at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. The archive is open to scholars.

Documented truth is the liar's worst nightmare. Despite a Pulitzer Nomination and the adherence to the Book Selection Criteria For Use in Schools and in Libraries, the California Legislature disregarded Baker's meticulous scholarship and passed a resolution that only material which toes their party line will be taught in California Public Schools, effectively "banning" Baker's books and their documentary resources in that state's educational system. Why are they so worried? See what the Pulitzer Prize Board nominated and the FACTS that those "in the know" don't want you to discover.