Japanese American Internment Camps Research

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Subject Area:History

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Japanese- Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their original land and could have probably helped Japan launch an attack on American soil. The government relocated them into military camps which led to a government activity that still haunts victims and their descendants despite government compensation. The occurrence of this event is still considered as the most anonymous violation of civil rights of Americans which revealed the following injustices by the ruling government: • Discrimination based on ancestral origin. • Violation of property law by the government. • Violation of American civil rights. All this happened because President Roosevelt gave in to the general and political opinion by politicians and racist people. Evacuation It was not until February 1942 when the state war department came up with 12 confined zones along the coast and set stern curfews to the detainees.

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On March 18, 1942 a war department was established who’s main purpose was to surround the detainees and prevent them from even buying land, they were supposed to be returned home at the end of the war. Before the camps were complete, the detainees were held in haphazard centers like stables at local racetracks (Grodzins, 244). Life at the camps The camps offered jobs to internees with conditions that the internees must not earn more than an army private. Only later to realize how they were infringing on American civil rights. Justice for the detainees In the case of Endo vs. United States, a ruling was made on relocation authority that “has no authority to subject citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure.

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