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March 29, 2007 [ 3] The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp in which Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan, called Nikkei were incarcerated.
A girl detained in Arkansas walks to school in 1943. Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. "This order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast ...
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II. The decision has been widely criticized, [ 2] with some scholars describing it as "an odious and discredited artifact of ...
Japanese Americans were initially barred from U.S. military service, but by 1943, they were allowed to join, with 20,000 serving during the war. Over 4,000 students were allowed to leave the camps to attend college. Hospitals in the camps recorded 5,981 births and 1,862 deaths during incarceration.
Notes. [ 1] Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦, Obata Chiura, November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975) [ 2] was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher. [ 3] A self-described "roughneck", [ 4] Obata went to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful ...
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities (including their homes, businesses, and college residencies) in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the ...
Coordinates: 37°38′08″N 122°25′09″W. Tanforan Assembly Center. Internment camp for Japanese-Americans, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area. Aerial view of the Tanforan Assembly Center, taken sometime in 1942. Etymology: named for the racetrack. Coordinates: 37°38′08″N 122°25′09″W. / 37.6354361°N 122.4190361°W ...
March 18, 2022. The Amache National Historic Site, formally the Granada War Relocation Center but known to the internees as Camp Amache (pronounced a-ma-chee), was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans on the West Coast were ...