Mx Arjuna
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The American concentration camps of WWII were established in the early 1940s: "In response to racist and xenophobic wartime hysteria" President Roosevelt signed an executive order "that gave the army power to exclude whomever it saw fit under the guise of 'military necessity.'"

Aerial black and white photograph from the Densho archives showing rows of identical wooden barracks buildings arranged in a grid pattern across barren, dusty ground at a Japanese American concentration camp during World War II. The single-story structures have peaked roofs and appear to be temporary housing units with small windows along their sides. A few small figures of people and a vehicle are visible between the buildings, emphasizing the vast scale of the mass incarceration facility. The geometric repetition of the uniform buildings creates stark lines across the empty landscape, documenting the systematic nature of the forced detention program that operated from 1942-1945 under Executive Order 9066.
Aerial black and white photograph from the Densho archives showing rows of identical wooden barracks buildings arranged in a grid pattern across barren, dusty ground at a Japanese American concentration camp during World War II. The single-story structures have peaked roofs and appear to be temporary housing units with small windows along their sides. A few small figures of people and a vehicle are visible between the buildings, emphasizing the vast scale of the mass incarceration facility. The geometric repetition of the uniform buildings creates stark lines across the empty landscape, documenting the systematic nature of the forced detention program that operated from 1942-1945 under Executive Order 9066.
Aerial black and white photograph from the Densho archives showing rows of identical wooden barracks buildings arranged in a grid pattern across barren, dusty ground at a Japanese American concentration camp during World War II. The single-story structures have peaked roofs and appear to be temporary housing units with small windows along their sides. A few small figures of people and a vehicle are visible between the buildings, emphasizing the vast scale of the mass incarceration facility. The geometric repetition of the uniform buildings creates stark lines across the empty landscape, documenting the systematic nature of the forced detention program that operated from 1942-1945 under Executive Order 9066.
Mx Arjuna
@continuation@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066—which gave the army power to exclude whomever it saw fit under the guise of “military necessity”—on February 19, 1942."

At first Japanese Americans were encouraged to move on their own. The government called this "voluntary evacuation." After only 5,000 out of 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast chose to move the US Army quickly built 17 facilities and started rounding people up.
Mx Arjuna
@continuation@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Located in desolate desert or swamplands throughout the West and in Arkansas, these 'relocation centers' [concentration camps] were surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers, and were still being completed when the first inmates began to arrive."

"While the vast majority of Japanese Americans chose to obey the army’s exclusion orders, a few chose to challenge aspects of the exclusion and incarceration."

https://densho.org/learn/introduction/responses/

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