Japanese internment camp

Many of the Japanese Americans incarcerated at Tule Lake had been farmers before the war. At camp, they were employed as field workers, often for $12 a month. Here, incarcerees work in a carrot field.

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Farming Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-Americans Remember WWII Incarceration

7:00am February 19, 2017

by Lisa Morehouse

Many of the incarcerated were farmers, coerced to work the land in the camps. The food they grew was meant for the incarcerated but camp administrators sold it on the open market. Resistance ensued.

Pictures of people who were incarcerated at Manzanar War Relocation Center are displayed alongside family tags at Manzanar National Historic Site near Independence, Calif., in 2015.

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There's A Long, Ignominous Trail Of Bans, Registries And Forced Relocation

9:13pm February 02, 2017

by Jorge Encinas

The travel ban imposed by the president a week ago on people from seven Muslim-majority countries is only the latest executive order through the years grounded in race, ethnicity or country of origin.

Hawaii's Honouliuli Internment Camp held thousands of prisoners of war and hundreds of Japanese-American citizens during World War II

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Once Lost, Internment Camp In Hawaii Now A National Monument

2:39pm March 18, 2015

by Molly Solomon

The camp, created in 1943, held as many as 4,000 prisoners — including hundreds of Japanese-Americans — and became known as "Hell's Valley."

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