• Dorothea Lange: The War Relocation Authority Assignment

    Make Visible collaborated with the John Young Museum and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Art Department in creating this virtual tour so that anyone can have a chance to virtually walk through the museum's galleries and explore Lange's work. In 1942, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) government agency Lange sustained a critical relationship with, commissioned her to document the loss of civil liberties and property, followed by the confinement that affected the generations of nissei– and sansei– Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned through no act of their own, but because of their Japanese ancestry.