Forced removal & incarceration
Manzanar
March 1942 - November 1945Manzanar War Relocation Center, CA
More than 10,000 Japanese Americans - two-thirds of them United States citizens - were held behind barbed wire in the Owens Valley, without charge, because of their ancestry.
- People displaced
- 11,070
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