Bainbridge Island, Washington became the first community to evacuate Japanese Americans when President Franklin Roosevelt gave the order to send them to incarceration camps.
Few spoke up for the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans singled out for their race without any evidence of traitorous actions against their country, the United States.
But Walt and Milly Woodward, publishers of the Bainbridge Review, did, reports the Christian Post.
“These Japanese Americans of ours haven’t bombed anybody….They have given every indication of loyalty to this nation. They have sent…their own sons—six of them—into the United States Army.” the couple wrote the day after Pearl Harbor.
The Bainbridge Review was the only paper in the country to speak out against Executive Order 9066 that paved the way for the camps.
To this day, the newspaper carries on that legacy of speaking out for the oppressed, for those who have no voice.
It even has a website devoted to telling the Japanese American story on Bainbridge Island.
It’s an amazing story, even if you heard it before.
You can find the full story in the Christian Post.
