oct 4, 1942 - Japanese Interment Camps

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During World War II President Franklin Roosevelt established Japanese internment camps. The US government ensured the American people that people of Japanese descent would be interred and put in isolated camps. Around 117,000 people were transferred to facilities for the remainder of the war. Most of those people were US citizens. The people had 6 days to dispose of their belongings other than what they could carry. The Japanese reported to centers near their homes and then were transferred to a relocation center where they might live for months. The centers were in remote locations and were often configures fairgrounds, racetracks, or building not meant for human habitation. Food shortages were common and the detainees were offered jobs. Each relocation center was its own town, featuring schools, post offices and work facilities, as well as farmland for growing food and keeping livestock, all surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. The internment camps ended in 1945 following a Supreme Court decision.