1. Japanese American
Internment Camps

2. Anti-Japanese feelings in U.S.
anger after Pearl Harbor
public feared sabotage, spies
violence against J-As; therefore “protection” needed

4. Feb. 1942: Executive Order 9066 ordered J-As on West Coast to
internment camps
110,000 interned
poor camp conditions
psychological trauma;
economic loss
Supreme Court upheld
camps

5. “ I remember my mother wrapping a blanket around me and my pretending to fall asleep so she would be happy, though I was so excited I couldn't sleep.  I hear there were people herded into the Hastings Park like cattle.  Families were made to move in two hours.  Abandoned everything, leaving pets and possessions at gun point "
— Joy Kogawa

8. Views of Manzanar

9. 1945: Camps closed ! U.S. Compensation for Japanese Americans
1968: reimbursed for lost property, income
1988: surviving internees receive $20,000
(60,000 left)

10. Letter
Sent to
Japanese
Americans
In 1990
from
President
Bush Sr.