Image of an American Version of a Concentration Camp

This image of one of the many concentration camps that they set up for the Japanese during WWII this particular image was from Colorado. But there are many other locations where they were setup, two in California, two in Arizona, one in Utah, one in Idaho, one in Wyoming, one in Colorado and two in Arkansas.

At any one moment of time you could find 120,000 asian americans combined.

These people faced discrimation, poor living, low quality food, and segration.

There are many storys of this injustice but there is one that sticks out to many people is They Called Us Enemy. by George Takei.

In the start of the book he was just four years old when he moved to his first "internment camp" over the years. By the end of the story he had been the two diffrent camps.

The first camp he went to was a horse stable that had been converted into a stable that could house many people.The last camp he was at was a dedicated housing unit for people. By the time he moved there it was not finished so there was half built housing units.

At the ending of the war the people in the camp were offered a chance to give up their citizenship and by deported back to Japan. Many people chose this due to being scared of life outside the camp due to the ideas held by the public that the bombing of pearl harbor was the fault of the Japanese and that everyone from Japan was there to spy. When the people were finnaly released from the camps in 1946 they faced fear, hate, and anger from the public even through this they still fought to reclaim their citizenship.