After The Camps:
Getting back to regular life was hard for the Japanese-Americans in the Internment Camps. They were not able to take many of their belongings and had to sell them for really low prices. Lots of people sold their homes as well. Also, people still had prejudice against Japanese-Americans at this time. Many of them had to leave their hometowns because they were not welcome there.
The people in the camps left in early 1945. Japan ended up surrendering later that year. The last Japanese Internment Camp closed in 1946. The chaos caused by Japan and the bombing of Pearl Harbor was still with a lot of the public. Not a single person out of the ten who were convicted of being spies with Japan were Japanese American.
In 1944, a man named Fred Korematsu challenged the decisions of Japanese Internment Camps in Court. He was told that they were a "wartime necessity". Nothing else with the camps came along until 1988. President George Bush and Congress made an apology attempt by giving anyone who was in the camps $20,000. We still remember these camps today as a fault of the U.S. with racial segregation.
The people in the camps left in early 1945. Japan ended up surrendering later that year. The last Japanese Internment Camp closed in 1946. The chaos caused by Japan and the bombing of Pearl Harbor was still with a lot of the public. Not a single person out of the ten who were convicted of being spies with Japan were Japanese American.
In 1944, a man named Fred Korematsu challenged the decisions of Japanese Internment Camps in Court. He was told that they were a "wartime necessity". Nothing else with the camps came along until 1988. President George Bush and Congress made an apology attempt by giving anyone who was in the camps $20,000. We still remember these camps today as a fault of the U.S. with racial segregation.