LAD/Blog #35: Home was a Horse Stall

Sox was born in 1918. Despite being originally named Tsuyako, everyone called her "Sox" because they were unable to pronounce her given name. Sox and her sister were very upset when they heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Eventually, her and her family were forced to relocate. They were only allowed to pack a small amount of things. Families often burned Japanese heirlooms, because they might raise suspicion. At their new home, they were forced to live in army-style barracks. In every building, there were two back-to-back rows of ten stalls. Each stall was only 9 feet by 20 feet. Some people felt humiliated by these horrible conditions, which were so bad that these interment camps can be compared to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

This was all allowed because of Executive Order 9066. This order, signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1942, allowed the military to imprison Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans. As a direct result, around 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned throughout the country. The prison camps were shut down after the war ended. Things were finally repaired in 1988, when President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which paid reparations to anyone who had been imprisoned.Related image
A family in a Japanese internment camp


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Synthesis: Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Holmes Jr. who restricted free speech during the Great War, which could be seen as a violation of the human rights the country was built on, similar to the way Japanese Americans were treated during WW2

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