The life inside Internment camp
In 1942 America was under attack by Japanese, destroying a Navy base in Pearl Harbor. Do to his Japanese American's were a victim and a new racist war. The Japanese population were forced to move to certain camps do to the goverment order. One camp the japanese were forces to move was located in Southeastern Arkansas. Population of 7,932 thirty-three percent were lssei and sixty six percent Nisei.
Approximately 10,00 acres and 5,000 workers one of the biggest Internment camps. The goverment paid 9,503,905 to built this camp, i myself find this a waste of money could of gone to schools or to offer more jobs to the unemployed. The camps were divided into 2 grounds the lssei and the Nisei, the Nisei had more freedom and were allowed to give free education to the younger children. The Nisei had low in respect treated as a lower class and no education for there children.
Bill Shismia this 81 year old man was in an Internment camp at the age of 12; 12-year-old behind the barbed wire of a Japanese American internment camp. He had to work on a rabbit farm to earn money when his parents couldn't afford to move the family back to California. Bill Shismia mention that the Interment camp were "cold memories and i dont like to think about the pass, i lost both of my parents" all he thinks is "wow there both gone".