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Photographer: Bill Kirchner
Taken: August 18, 2010
Caption: Relocation During World War II
Additional Description: Photo captions:
Upper left photo: During evacuation internees wore name tags to ensure that family members were assigned to the same camp. The majority of internees were elderly or children.
Photo by Dororbea Lange, 1942, courtesy of the Bancroft Library

Upper right photo: People were given anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks to sell off their property or find someone to watch over it. Homes, farms, fishing boats, and businesses worth billions in today's dollars were lost, through under-valued sales or outright theft. Here a soldier posts Exclusion orders, March 1942.
Photo from the National Archives, courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society.

Lower left photo: Anyone with 1/16 or more Japanese ancestry had to leave California, western Oregon, western Washington, and southern Arizona. Detainees arrive by train at the Santa Anita Detention Camp, April 1942
Photo by Glenn Abers, courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society

Lower right photo: Propaganda to boast American's fighting spirit, like this U.S. Army poster, fueled racial prejudices
Submitted: August 19, 2010, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p123350
File Size: 2.698 Megabytes

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