Naomi 平原直美 Hirahara & Heather C. Lindquist, “Life after Manzanar”, 2008 was a history of Japanese-American Manzanar internment camp. Instead of telling what went on inside the internment only, we follow the lives of the people after release. Sue 国富 Kunitomi くにとみ is the most famous voice of Manzanar internment’s. Sue 国富 Kunitomi くにとみ as the “Unquiet Nisei” was the topic of an earlier blog post. The first camp to open was Manzanar; however, there were ten “War Relocation Centers”.
1. Gila River
2. Granola
3. Heart Mountain
4. Jerome
5. Manzanar
7. Minidoka
8. Poston
9. Topaz
10. Tule Lake
The map (shown below) contains an “Exclusion Zone” of the West Coast states of:
1. Washington, 2. Oregon, 3. California & 4. Arizona.
The internment camps were located in the following six states:
1. Arkansas: Jerome & Rohwer.
2. California: Gila River, Manzanar, Poston & Tule Lake.
3. Colorado: Granola.
4. Idaho: Minidoka.
5. Utah: Topaz.
6. Wyoming: Heart Mountain.
Naomi 平原直美 Hirahara & Heather C. Lindquist, “Life after Manzanar”, 2008 was a history of Manzanar internment camp. Manzanar was the first camp to open. However, “Manzanar” is a metaphor for all ten “War Relocation Centers” that in the total internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Any student of “United States Hiistory” has heard of “the internment. Few students of US History know all ten “War Relocation Centers”.
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