Japanese Incarceration Camps During World War Two - Part 3

US History Repeated

Part three of our coverage of Japanese Internment during World War Two finds Jeananne continuing her interview with Angela Sutton, an Interpretative Ranger at Tule lake, one of the most infamous of the incarceration centers to get inside knowledge and more details of what went on in the camp.

We get many details and a few stories, including first hand accounts retold by Ms. Sutton, as well as descriptions of the camp itself.

Jeananne then goes into what happened to the detainees after the camps closed.

Japanese Americans were given $25 and a one-way train ticket to go and re-establish their lives.

A Supreme Court case which challenged the Constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Incarceration camps was Korematsu v The United States.

More than 40 years after the war’s end, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which apologized to still-living Japanese Americans who had been held in the camps and ordered restitution of $20,000. In 1998, Fred Korematsu was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton. After the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001 when laws were passed that limited people’s civil liberties, once again Fred Korematsu spoke out. He died on March 30, 2005.

Listen to this podcast on how this went down and what exactly was involved.

There is always more to learn, talk to y'all soon!

Jimmy & Jean