Click2Famous Trials - Korematsu v United States - CAMP MANZANAR - Chapter 7 -

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>KOREMATSU</p> <p><FONT SIZE=4>CHAPTER 7 - CAMP MANZANAR</p></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="Left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica" size=3 color=000000><a target="_blank" href="images/evacuated.gif"><b>Evacuated</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/from.gif"><b>from</b></a> Los Angeles in early April of 1942, <a target="_blank" href="images/hundreds.gif"><b>hundreds</b></a> of ethnic Japanese traveled to the <a target="_blank" href="images/manzanar.gif"><b>Manzanar</b></a> internment facility, 250 miles away. <a target="_blank" href="images/located.gif"><b>Located</b></a> in Owens Valley, California, it was <a target="_blank" href="images/flanked.gif"><b>flanked</b></a> by the High Sierras on one side and Mt. Whitney on the other.<ul> <li>Some evacuees <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/20/17/20-1693a.gif" target="_blank"><b>wait for a bus</b></a> or <a target="_blank" href="images/arrive.gif"><b>arrive</b></a> by <a target="_blank" href="images/train.gif"><b>train</b></a> at Lone Pine, California.</li><br><br> <li>On their <a target="_blank" href="images/arrival.gif"><b>arrival</b></a>, <a target="_blank" href="images/babies7.gif"><b>babies</b></a>, <a target="_blank" href="images/children7.gif"><b>children</b></a>, women and men had to be registered.</li><br><br> <li>Manzanar’s <a target="_blank" href="images/relocation_center.gif"><b>Relocation Center</b></a> was a first stop before people were assigned to their <a target="_blank" href="images/new.gif"><b>new</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/homes7.gif"><b>homes</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Every evacuee <a target="_blank" href="images/lined_up.gif"><b>lined up</b></a> to be <a target="_blank" href="images/vaccinated.gif"><b>vaccinated</b></a> since, under these new living arrangements, the risk of typhoid and other diseases was always a concern.</li><br><br> <li>To make sure that no internee left Manzanar without permission, the Army’s military police guarded the camp’s boundaries. Camp hospitals treated the sick, like these <a target="_blank" href="images/elderly_patients.gif"><b>elderly patients</b></a>. Before the permanent facility (with 250 beds) was finished, people were cared for in <a target="_blank" href="images/temporary_quarters.gif"><b>temporary quarters</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Dust was <a target="_blank" href="images/always_present.gif"><b>always present</b></a> at Manzanar, so camp internees fashioned sandals called <i><a target="_blank" href="images/geta.gif"><b>geta</b></a></i> (wooden clogs) which were useful in such a climate. Fortunately, there was a nearby <a target="_blank" href="images/mountain_creek7.gif"><b>mountain creek</b></a> which provided relief from the desert heat and a place for children to <a target="_blank" href="images/have_fun.gif"><b>have fun</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Manzanar eventually had a <a target="_blank" href="images/library.gif"><b>library</b></a> containing, among other books, English classics translated into Japanese.</li></ul> <p align="justify">The great photographer <a target="_blank" href="images/ansel-adams.jpg"><b>Ansel Adams</b></a> took hundreds of pictures at Manzanar. The Library of Congress has created a special <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamsp.html" target="_blank"><b>on-line exhibit</b></a>, “Suffering Under a Great Injustice,” featuring much of that work. When he gave the collection to the American people, Adams wrote:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a <a target="_blank" href="images/great_injustice.JPG">great injustice</a>, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair</i></b> [sic] <b><i>by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment...All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Poston, one of the most populated internment camps, was located in Arizona, on an Indian reservation. Despite adversities it, too, had a sense of community. Let’s take a look.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="korematsu_us_ch6.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="korematsu_us_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER </a>    <a href="korematsu_us_ch8.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </tr> </table> </body>