Source Saturday: "Letter of Protest" (1944) with Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross

Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross introduces a "Letter of Protest" primary source, which was a letter written by Mrs. Aya Suzuki in 1944 to the Canadian government protesting the unlawful sale of land and property owned by herself and other Japanese-Canadians.

See the letter here: https://loi.uvic.ca/secondary/resources/documents/lesson%203/sources/Source%203.21%20Letter%20of%20Protest%20A.%20Suzuki.pdf

Check out this source, and sources like it, on the Landscapes of Injustice website for secondary school teaching resources: https://loi.uvic.ca/secondary/ 

Also see the livestream of the Landscapes of Injustice exhibition opening here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdhlzDr1Jwk&feature=youtu.be

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More about Jordan:

Jordan Stanger-Ross is associate professor of history at the University of Victoria and Project Director of Landscapes of Injustice, a 7-year partnership on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. Funded by the social sciences and humanities research council of Canada, the 7-project includes elementary and secondary school teachers as part of its national team. Jordan loves to present  this history to children, including his own three kids, Eva, Tillie, and Avi, who keep him on his toes by asking big, important questions.

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