Between February and November 1942, nearly 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese descent were evacuated from their homes and sent to government War Relocation Authority camps in remote areas of the West, South, and Southwest. Many of these Japanese...

On the morning of December 7, 1941, a large Japanese aircraft carrier strike force launched a surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack resulted in what many consider the worst defeat in U.S. military history....

Japanese people heading off to an internment camp. Photograph by Dorothea Lange Japanese American internment was the forced removal and internment of approximately 120,000[1] Japanese and Japanese Americans (62% of whom were United States...

Alexandra BoulatPARIS (AP) _ French photojournalist Alexandra Boulat, whose photographs from Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia gave the world an intimate look at life in conflict zones, died Friday. She was 45.Boulat's photo agency confirmed her death.Boulat, the daughter of celebrated Life Magazine photographer...

The prisoner was attempting to escape. As the man crawled under the barbed-wire fence, a shot echoed in the night sky and a patch of sand exploded in front of him. Caught, he crawled back into camp. He did not go fishing for trout that...

Sacramento County Japanese-American's Rights and the Government's Responsibilities: The Internment Years

Research paper that focuses on the deprivation of basic civil liberties on Japanese Americans during before and after the interment camps were put into effect.

During World War II, Japanese Americans were put into internment camps for fear of Americans.