This article examines a case of curriculum conflict in order to understand how the social studies curriculum is changed by such conflicts. In the case, a small group of activists challenged a local sixth grade history curriculum, which claimed that the WWII internment of Japanese Americans was a mistake. Activists claimed that the internment was motivated by military necessity, and they wanted the social studies curriculum to include this perspective. Eleven semi-structured interviews with curriculum challengers and supporters were analyzed deploying a sociological lens called frame analysis. Findings suggest that the historical context of the community set the stage for the social studies curriculum conflict. The success of challengers to change curriculum depended upon their ability to construct frames that aligned with professional educators and the community where the curriculum was taught.