Japanese Interment Camps
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- Oh no whats happening
- Where's my husband?
- I wanna go home
- I can't live like this
- In February 1942,President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, sending 120,000 people from the U.S west coast into internment camps because of their ethnic background. Two-thirds of them were born in America. Japanese community and religious leaders, arresting them without evidence and freezing their assets.
- The arrestees were transferred to facilities in Montana, New Mexico, and North Dakota, many unable to inform their families and most remaining for the duration of the war.
- The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority (the administering agency), Japanese Americans were housed in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind."
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