Internment Camps

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/2/19
  

  This Mexican American Teenager Spent Years in a Japanese Internment Camp—On Purpose

  Ralph Lazo wasn’t of Japanese descent, but he spent two years at Manzanar in solidarity with his friends.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-16-18
  

  Travel Ban Case Is Shadowed by One of Supreme Court’s Darkest Moments

  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 1942 executive order that sent more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-3-18
  

  Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII

  In papers presented in 2000 and 2007, historian Margo J. Anderson of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and statistician William Seltzer of Fordham University found evidence that census officials cooperated with the government, providing data to target Japanese Americans.

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• 11-19-16
  

  His Japanese-American parents were held in camps; now historian sees ‘same patterns’ emerging

  A Seattle man who has spent 15 years studying and preserving the history of Japanese-American internment in World War II said he sees the same climate of fear and hate now following Donald Trump’s campaign.