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Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943 Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942 Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Naval Station Great Lakes, North Chicago, Illinois; Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Submarine Base New London, Connecticut; Pre-Trial Confinement Facility/Consolidated Confinement Unit, Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan; Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Finally, in 1988, Reagan signed the Civil Rights Act of 1988, an apology for the injustices of the detention, and cash amends of $20,000 to each living Japanese American citizen or legal resident ...
The War Relocation Authority operated ten Japanese-American internment camps in remote areas of the United States during World War II. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Work by imprisoned artists went on show at the home of US Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, who described the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans as a “shameful” chapter in his country ...
In 1981, public hearings were held by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians at Chicago's Northeastern Illinois University as part of a government investigation into the constitutionality of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. Nearly 100 people participated in the Chicago hearings.
Japanese American Segregation Centers (1942-1946) — for mandatory Japanese American citizen internment during WW II in the United States. The assembly centers for processing , concentration camps for forced relocation, and citizen isolation centers and prisons for dissident incarceration.