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A Thousand Paper Cranes: How Denver's Japanese American Community Emerged from Internment (film)
- Films and Video
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Importance of community, Power of the past, Rebirth
- Widely available
Documentary film about the wartime incarceration and about Japanese Americans in Denver after the war. Scenes shot at the Amache site today serve as a backdrop for the incarceration stories, while the segments on Denver focus on the importance of Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and on Sakura Square, the symbolic center of Colorado's Japanese American community.