During World War II, it was used as an internment camp, holding Japanese, Germans and Italians from Latin America. About 3,000 were forcibly taken from their homes and imprisoned by the U.S.

It’s full of 125,000 Japanese names – people who during World War II were placed in internment camps. Places like Amache, ...

In San Francisco, California, soldiers stand watch as luggage is loaded onto a truck bound for Japanese internment camps on April 29, 1942. During World War II, the U.S. held its residents of ...

Historical Examples of Christian Opposition Certain Christian leaders and organizations courageously challenged internment policies. The Quakers were particularly outspoken, driven by pacifist and ...

He urged Nikkei Christians to uphold the example of Abraham ... could have avoided internment, as his wife’s family in Colorado offered them refuge. Instead, he and his family chose to suffer ...

Ford Kuramoto was only 3 years old when his family had to leave their Los Angeles home to be taken to the Manzanar internment camp in the California desert. Frances Kuramoto, Ford's wife ...

Walk’s resignation, while inspiring, remained singular. No other WRA attorney followed his example of protest. It’s easy to condemn them for staying on the job — perhaps too easy.

In a more just world, the arc of Japanese American baseball would be unfettered by internment. The game was largely introduced to Japan in the late 19 th century by Horace Wilson, a Maine ...

In Washington state, nearly 13,000 people were removed with about 30% of Japanese Americans returning to Tacoma after the war ...

This was much higher than the proportion of Italians and Germans sent to Australian internment camps. In my newly published research, I have been exploring the forgotten experiences of Japanese ...

Yet the U.S. government imprisoned these men for years in World War II internment camps. Their internment was declared permissible under the Alien Enemies Act, a law that allowed the wartime ...

President Biden on Sunday called the use of internment camps for Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II “one of the most shameful periods in American history.” “When President ...