★ In the early 1940s more than 100.000 people of Japanese descent lived in the United States.
★ These Japanese Americans were either "Issei" i.e those born in Japan or "Nisei " i .e American-born Japanese.
★ After the attack on Pearl Harbor white Americans began to see every Japanese American as a potential spy or saboteur.Both Issei and Nisei were treated badly.
★ In March 1942, the government sent soldiers to take them from their homes to be interned in prison camps called " relocation centers ".
★ Most of the internment camps were in remote , desert areas of the country.Over 100.000 Japanese American men, women & children were kept there for the rest of the war.
★ In later years the American Civil Liberties Union called their internment " the worst single violation of the civil rights of American citizens in our history ."
★ The internment of the Issei and the Nisei was more than unjust. Thousands of Nisei fought bravely in the American army.
★ And not one Japanese American was convicted of an act of disloyalty to the United States during the whole of the war .
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