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Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers which are now most commonly known as internment camps or incarceration centers.
An estimated 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese nationals and American-born Japanese from Hawaii were interned or incarcerated, either in five camps on the islands or in one of the mainland concentration camps, but this represented well-under two percent of the total Japanese American residents in the islands. [192] "No serious explanations were offered ...
In this photo provided by the National Archives, Japanese Americans, including American Legion members and Boy Scouts, participate in Memorial Day services at the Manzanar Relocation Center, an ...
Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps.
The Jerome War Relocation Center was a Japanese American internment camp located in southeastern Arkansas, near the town of Jerome in the Arkansas Delta. Open from October 6, 1942, until June 30, 1944, it was the last American concentration camp to open and the first to close. At one point it held as many as 8,497 detainees.
A tranquil watercolor by imprisoned artist Kango Takamura depicts a winter's day at the Manzanar camp in California's Owens Valley. - Courtesy Japanese American National Museum
After the war, they showed their photographs in a collaborative exhibit, [7] and published the book Two Views of Manzanar featuring both his and Adams' photos of the camp., [8] [2] Of the three major photographers who documented the camps, Adams, Miyatake, and Dorothea Lange, each one's work showed somewhat different aspects of the camps ...
Oct. 24—It's a heartbreaking image: a photo taken by Dorothea Lange showing Japanese American children joining other students in pledging allegiance to the U.S. flag sometime in the spring of 1942.