Wyoming’s Largest Mass Trial 1a

Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Frank S. Emi (96.109.27)

This object is part of the story , which is about Citizenship.

Citizenship, Heart Mountain, Wyoming's Largest Mass Trial

Look closely at this photograph taken in Federal District Court in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1944.

  • How old might the men depicted here be?
  • What do they communicate to you with their expressions and body language?
  • Why might so many of them have been in court?