Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's WWII Japanese Internment Camps | Historical Nonfiction Book for Students & Educators

Michi Weglyn wrote this in the early 1970's when no one had realy described the nightmare that befell nearly every Japanese-American in the U.S.A. early in 1942. She talks of the 10 camps set-up in various wasteland in the U.S. (at that time) and she mentions, in passing the half a dozen other camps as punitive enclaves and transition camps and such. As well as the Tule Lake Segregation camp whose intent was to deny citizenship rights to people born in the U.S.A.Subsequent to this books publication it came out -- in Federal Court (9th District) that the Justice Department had illegally suppressed evidence in the cases brought in opposition to the "relocating" (imprisoning) American citizens with no trial and with not even "probable cause." Half of those imprisoned were born in the U.S., and were constitutionally therefore American Citizens.This was the first book that exposed the mess as a whole written by one of those citizens--not a journalist or an academic or even a popular historian. Its unusual and unexpected organization reflects this fact but it still works since Michi is careful, sincere and dispassionate.My wife was born in Tule Lake. I was born there too but there was a 8 foot high fence with three strands of barbed wire atop it separating her parents from mine and guard towers with armed U.S. soldiers in them and two Sherman Tanks that plowed around the camp when things got active inside the wire. People were sent to camps in Santa Fe N.M. and other camps and then sent to Japan after the War--including many American citizens.Read it and learn more.