![]() ![]() With address in hand, Miss Breed sent more books, more stamped postcards. With so many of her patrons gone, “he library was a lonelier place” … until the postcards started coming back to Miss Breed. But she managed to hug the children, and pass out books and more postcards: “‘If you need anything, just write.'” When Miss Breed went to the train station as families departed, she “couldn’t believe her eyes” watching people tagged “as if they were bundles of luggage,” ordered about by gun-carrying soldiers. As each came to return their books along with their library card, Miss Breed handed out stamped, addressed postcards with an encouraging request: “‘Write to us … We’ll want to know where you are.'” Breed made sure her young patrons weren’t sent away empty-handed. At the East San Diego Branch of the San Diego Library which served many Japanese American families before WWII, supervising children’s librarian Clara E. ![]() Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 during World War II were, of course, children. ![]() And books – that very best antidote for all ‘-isms’ – were, of course involved.Īmong the 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were imprisoned without cause by President Franklin D. Beyond the barrage of soul-depleting headlines is this much-needed reminder of utter goodness, when one brave woman affected the lives of dozens of young children. ![]()
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