Japanese-American owned grocery store

ID: 46 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: Dorothea Lange
This file appears in: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

The owner of this Oakland, California grocery store posted a large sign proclaiming, "I AM AN AMERICAN," in March 1942 after the Empire of Japan attacked the American naval base in Pearl Harbor.

ID: A business on a street corner with a sign that reads “I am an American.”

This file appears in: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

By Jimmy Doi
"We were in Sunday school class and someone came in and said someone attacked Pearl Harbor and I thought, I don’t know Pearl Harbor. It was a Caucasian Sunday school teacher and we were supposed to go to have a basketball outing, you know, and…