Home The American Experience In 1942, the US government ordered over 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese aliens to leave their homes and relocated them to military style camps. This is the cemetery of Manzanar, one of 10 such
9th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
In 1942, the US government ordered over 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese aliens to leave their homes and relocated them to military style camps. This is the cemetery of Manzanar, one of 10 such

In 1942, the US government ordered over 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese aliens to leave their homes and relocated them to military style camps. This is the cemetery of Manzanar, one of 10 such camps, which housed over 11,000 of these people.

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Date Taken: 02.2009
Date Uploaded: 12.2011
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Copyright: © Jim Shoemaker