1. Japanese Internment
... in the online archive of the University of Washington gives insight into how demeaning the camps were to the incarcerated internees during this time and how such civil rights were denied. Armed guards patrolled the grounds surrounding each of the barracks and along the barbed wire fences enclosing the camps. In some cases the Japanese Americans were prohibited from being within ten feet of the fence ... literature, and other records deemed suspicious by Americans. Religious freedom was also denied: Shinto, a major religion for the Japanese, was banned from many of the camps (1-4). As you ...
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