Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, FBI agents raided homes of immigrants from Japan & froze the assets of anyone connected to Japan. Inmates stayed in dusty animal stables that smelled of manure. They were literally forced to live like animals.
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They were then shipped to “relocation centers,” built in the remote locations, which consisted of prison-like conditions with armed guards. Families could be broken up and sent to separate camps. Attempting escape, resisting orders, and treason were all punishable by death.pic.twitter.com/HF3iiP3sG1
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Those detained in the camps were forced to work on farming or other jobs for slave wages.pic.twitter.com/pFPzjnh4PB
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The American photographer Ansel Adams was hired to photograph Manzanar "relocation camp" Adams dutifully produced propaganda for the US government, which depicted the camps as beautiful, instead of the monstrosities they were.pic.twitter.com/vVPlKu7vnn
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Japanese-Americans met hostility as they tried to resume their former lives after they left the camps. Former internees who returned home were beaten and even killed. Neighborhood signs declared that “Japs” weren’t welcome anymore, warning them to keep away.pic.twitter.com/bW6D05O5ko
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..Never any mention of this while we were bombarded with "the Russian Gulags" during the cold war.
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ONE OF THE SADDEST EVENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY ON A PAR WITH NSLAVERY
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Käyttäjän @ana60nda tili on poistettu käytöstä tilapäisesti Twitterin mediakäytännön vastaisena. Lue lisääKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Wow. This American stain seems to almost have been washed away. This never should have happened & more importantly, should never be forgotten. For as wonderful an image America has been, it has its fair share of terrible history. And worse, we have never been an equal society
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Hardly the only full-on example of racial discrimination in America. Google "Chinese exclusion act" for just one example.
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