1. Warm Up What changes occurred for minorities in America during the war? What did not change? What aspects of WWII are going to help encourage the Civil Rights Movement after the war is over?

2. Japanese Internment Concentration Camps in America

3. Fear and Loathing on the West Coast What event would have made everyone so afraid of Japanese people? Why would people allow the government to take away the rights of so many American citizens?

4. An order went out on every corner… The Japanese American Internment refers to the forcible relocation of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, 62 percent of whom were United States citizens, from the West Coast of the United States during World War II to hastily constructed housing facilities

5. Internment Sites

7. Manzanar

8. Jerome Relocation Center

10. Only Allowed to Take What They Could Carry…

11. All Cooped Up A close-up of an entrance of a family apartment (converted horse stall). Five people occupy two small rooms, the inner on of which is without outside door or windows. Tanforan Assembly Center. San Bruno, Ca, June 16, 1942. Dorothea Lange

12. Camps were all about waiting…

13. Some did not get interned but… This bus load of Japanese Americans, under guard by local and federal officers, was removed from Terminal Island, in the Los Angeles Harbor Area, and taken to headquarters for investigation.

14. What else from WWII does this look like?

15. How is this event different from the Jewish Concentration Camps?

18. Children “Pledge” to the Flag

19. There was fun, sort of… "Sometimes the ball would go through the fence. If we looked like we were going to go after it, the guards would point loaded rifles at us and yell at us to get back. I really resented being cooped up and not having the freedom to even chase a ball." - Amache resident Tom Shigekuni in Robert Harvey's

20. Lasting Effects of Internment In 1980 the U.S. Congress began investigating the forced relocation of Japanese Americans and others during World War II. The investigations led to the release of documents showing that in World War II the government had withheld information about the existence of a "military necessity" for the relocation. The commission said that the government's actions during the war had been "greatly unjust and deeply injurious." In 1998 Congress provided $20,000 payments to each surviving person who had been relocated. Photo by Dorothea Lange.