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Notice ordering all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes and report to a Civil Control Station

During World War II, racism was a factor in the treatment of people whose ancestors had come to the United States from countries that were at war with America.

In May 1942, a few months after Japan’s invasion of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government forcibly moved Japanese Americans to internment camps in the American desert.  While they were never starved or mistreated there, their homes and businesses were either abandoned or sold at a loss before they were moved into the camps.  German and Italian Americans were not subjected to this type of treatment.

On loan from Darrell English

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