On July 8, 2026, the Tolerance Poster Show traveled to the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in northwestern Wyoming, located near Yellowstone National Park. The Poster Show went up in the museum's Mineta Simpson Institute, a lecture hall dedicated to the friendship across racial, territorial, and political differences between Senator Al Simpson and Secretary Norman Mineta.
Heart Mountain was the site of one of ten camps where innocent Japanese American civilians were confined by their own government during World War II. In February of 1942, as America went to war in the Pacific, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation and incarceration of over 100,000 Japanese Americans on the basis of their ethnicity. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation continues to educate visitors about the hardship imposed by the United States government on its own people in the name of a national security threat that did not exist.
The Heart Mountain Tolerance Poster Show was curated by Cally Steussy (Director of Interpretation and Preservation for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation) with the assistance of Mackenzie Legler and Michael McDaniel, and was made possible through the support of Stephanie Anderson of the University of Wyoming.
Photos by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation.
