Citizens to Captives: The Internment of The Japanese Americans

Wil Vanderslice Junior Division Website 1,200 Words 306 Words

During the time of World War II Franklin Roosevelt president of the United States stripped Japanese Americans of their rights and sent to internment camps between 1941 and 1945. This backfired very quickly on the United States during and after the war because no one took responsibility. Not only did this terrify the Japanese-Americans but it gave the United States a bad name with the Japanese and the world. The internment was terribly unfair toward the Japanese-Americans who had nothing to do with the war. My research on the Japanese internment during World War II was from Books, Interviews with survivors, and research on the Internet. While I was watching an old episode of Star Trek one that included George Takei, I remembered that he was in the internment camps and that it made a perfect history day topic and chose it. Although during the National History Day process I did go through problems. I had a pretty big issue with finding writing from people in the camps at the time who werent children. There were many letters written to librarian by her students but it was quite hard to find anything else. Because this was my first year for history day writing

this paper, and my bibliography, and making my website took immense patience and time. The Japanese-Americans were sadly stripped of the right during World War II for no good reason. And because of this the United States had a big scar because no responsibility was taken. The time of their loss of rights will forever be written down in our history books and be taught for centuries until its forgotten, but we may never learn from the rights that were lost and the responsibilities that werent taken.