Click2Famous Trials - Korematsu v United States - Camp Poston - Chapter 8 -

<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><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000>KOREMATSU</p> <p><FONT SIZE=4>CHAPTER 8 - CAMP POSTON</p></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="Left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica" size=3 color=000000>According to the National Archives, the Poston, Arizona internment camp was located "on the Colorado River Indian Reservation." In these War Relocation photographs, the site is "<a target="_blank" href="images/partially.gif"><b>partially</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/developed.gif"><b>developed</b></a>." Perhaps a river is nearby, but it <a target="_blank" href="images/isnt_noticeable.gif"><b>isn’t noticeable</b></a> in these pictures.<ul> <li>The highway leading to Poston marked the camp as a "<a target="_blank" href="images/prohibited.gif"><b>Prohibited</b></a>" military area.</li><br><br> <li>Japanese-Americans <a target="_blank" href="images/registered.gif"><b>registered</b></a> at <a target="_blank" href="images/poston.gif"><b>Poston</b></a> when they <a target="_blank" href="images/first_arrived.gif"><b>first arrived</b></a> at the camp.</li><br><br> <li>Evacuees served as <a target="_blank" href="images/welders.gif"><b>welders</b></a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/20/18/20-1768a.gif"><b>assistant</b></a> doctors, <a target="_blank" href="images/fireman.gif"><b>firemen</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/local_police.gif"><b>local police</b></a> at Poston.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/hastily.gif"><b>Hastily</b></a> constructed <a target="_blank" href="images/barracks.gif"><b>barracks</b></a>, covered with rolls of <a target="_blank" href="images/roofing_material.gif"><b>roofing material</b></a>, eventually served as <a target="_blank" href="images/shelter.gif"><b>shelter</b></a> for more than 17,000 people forced to leave their own homes and resettle at <a target="_blank" href="images/dusty.gif"><b>dusty</b></a> Poston.</li><br><br> <li>On arrival at the camp, people <a target="_blank" href="images/created_mattresses.gif"><b>created mattresses</b></a> with <a target="_blank" href="images/straw_ticks.gif"><b>straw sticks</b></a> and slept on <a target="_blank" href="images/beds.gif"><b>beds</b></a> in very close quarters. <a target="_blank" href="images/shower_facilities.gif"><b>Shower facilities</b></a> were primitive and communal.</li><br><br> <li>It was <a target="_blank" href="images/hot_at_poston.gif"><b>hot at Poston</b></a>, so ice from a thermos helped to provide some relief from the heat.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/children8.gif"><b>Children</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/play.gif"><b>play</b></a>, and <a target="_blank" href="images/read.gif"><b>read</b></a>, wherever they are.</li><br><br> <li>Evacuees created a <a target="_blank" href="images/garden_area.gif"><b>garden area</b></a> at Poston and <a target="_blank" href="images/enjoyed.gif"><b>enjoyed</b></a> outdoor musical concerts.</li></ul> <p align="justify">Families sent to Minidoka, Idaho found themselves in a much different climate. There, children played in the snow instead of the desert.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="korematsu_us_ch7.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="korematsu_us_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER </a>    <a href="korematsu_us_ch9.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </tr> </table> </body>