Mapping The Internment Of Japanese Americans

Feb 19th was the 75th anniversary of the executive gild authorizing the internment of Japanese Americans. During the Second World War over 120,000 Japanese Americans were placed inwards concentration camps inwards the United States.

Esri has manually digitized the archival records of the War Relocation Authority, the civilian trunk that oversaw the relocation as well as incarceration of Japanese Americans, to utilisation a Story Map which examines how America imprisoned its ain citizens inwards the 1940's. Justice Deferred explores the contributions made yesteryear Japanese Americans to American life earlier World War II. It hence maps out how the largest Japanese American communities inwards Los Angeles, San Francisco as well as Portland, Oregon as well as Seattle were forcibly removed from their homes as well as placed inwards ane of x concentration camps.

Justice Deferred is soundless to a greater extent than than only a serial of maps showing how Japanese Americans were incarcerated during the Second World War. It likewise examines the personal stories of roughly of the effected Americans as well as the legacy of the internment plan on Japanese Americans as well as for the USA itself.