It includes 11 photographs of the Owen's Valley environment and has two chapters devoted to the land and the place, before discussing life at Manzanar, which he notes "Is only a detour on the road to American citizenship" (Born Free and Equal, 24) |
"I trust the content and message of this book will suggest that the broad concepts of American citizenship, and of liberal, democratic life the world over, must be protected in the prosecution of the war, and sustained in the building of the peace to come." - Ansel Adams (Born Free and Equal, 9) |
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"ALL PERSONS BORN OR NATURALIZED IN THE UNITED STATES AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF, ARE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE STATE IN WHICH THEY RESIDE. NO STATE SHALL MAKE OR ENFORCE ANY LAW WHICH SHALL ABRIDGE THE PRIVILEGES OR IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, NOR SHALL ANY STATE DEPRIVE ANY PERSON OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW, NOR DENY TO ANY PERSON WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS." ( Born Free and Equal, 5) |
Adams' photographs of Manzanar were not only published through his book, but displayed at Manzanar in 1943 and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1944. |
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