In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers. Manzanar, the first of ten such concentration camps, was bounded by barbed wire and guard towers, confining 10,000 persons, the majority being American citizens. May the …
Examines the formation and administration of the relocation camps in the western U.S. that Japanese-Americans were forcibly moved to during World War II, focusing on the ways relocation affected Americans of Japanese descent.
Working with primary documents she uncovered at the National Archives, the Franklin Roosevelt Library, and the New York City Library, Weglyn pieced together the dramatic story of how the incarceration came to be--not as the result of "military necessity," as claimed by the Roose…