Manzanar Relocation Center in Winter, 1943.
Author: Corey Knight
Interviewer: Reese Manning
The bombing at Pearl Harbor rippled fear throughout the US and ultimately led to the evacuation of Japanese-Americans to Internment camps in the West. This fear, along with a long history of racist feelings towards them, made this decision easier for the US government. Many of the hundreds of thousands who were accused of being dangerous, posed no threat at all. Corey Knight analyses the process of internment, the attitudes reflected by Japanese-Americans within the camps, and how they persevered through a troubling time.