Japanese-Americans+in+U.S.+internment+camps

Will Weston, Kodi Schummer, Cris Mcmanus, Patrick Peters, Lorenzo Reed


 * __Japanese-Americans in U.S. internment camps__**

The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority (the administering agency), Japanese Americans were housed in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind." Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets as they were alloted. Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per internee, and served by fellow internees in a mess hall of 250-300 people. Leadership positions within the camps were only offered to the //Nisei//, or American-born, Japanese. The older generation, or the //Issei//, were forced to watch as the government promoted their children and ignored them. Eventually the government allowed internees to leave the concentration camps if they enlisted in the U.S. Army. This offer was not well received. Only 1,200 internees chose to do so.