1. Japanese American Internment Camps

2. Japanese Americans Americans of Japanese descent
Historically 3rd largest Asian American group
Started coming in 1868

3. Executive Order 9066 President Franklin Roosevelt February 19, 1942
Commander-in-Chief
February 19, 1942
Allows local military commanders to designate “military areas” as “exclusive zones” from which “any or all persons may be excluded.”
All people of Japanese ancestry are excluded from Pacific coast unless in internment camp

4. Manzanar
Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California’s Owens Valley.
6,200 acres of land made up Manzanar.
Over 110,000 Japanese American people lived here.

5. Manzanar (CONT)
What’s left of Manzanar