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During World War II, the U.S. government interned approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar in California.

During World War II, the U.S. government interned approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar in California.

 

During World War II, the U.S. government interned approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar in California.

Photograph by Dorothea Lange. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
 
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