Don't miss out on the opportunity to donate to the Poston Brick Program.

This is a MAJOR fundraising campaign to get us started with preserving Poston's remaining historic structures to create a museum. The museum will tell the stories of the Japanese Americans and Native Americans who shared the surrounding land.
 
For $100 donation or more, you can purchase a 4" x 8" brick with a personalized inscription (name of Poston internee, donor's name or wording  of your choice).

To obtain a brick donation form or check on the progress of this fundraising program,  click on "BRICK CAMPAIGN" (on the left side of your screen).


                

What are the Poston, Arizona block books about?

Basically, the book is a "Who's Who" directory of the incarcerated people and where they lived within each block and barrack based on the 1944 Poston census. The book includes names and limited photos, and the marriages, births, deaths, location from where, and when some were taken by the FBI from their homes, and when and where they went when they were told to "leave" Poston and had no where to go. 

The book tells of some of the students who were released to attend college, others went outside for agricultural work in nearby states, and the Poston organization memberships and positions held, etc..  Information mostly extracted from the Poston Chronicles and/or oral histories by the author. 

The goal of the book series is to let outsiders know that each person was a real person.   Most descendants have no idea WHO were living in the same block.  Those who were incarcerated did not talk about this traumatic episode in their disrupted their lives which occurred from 1942-1945.