Roosevelt signed an order establishing concentration camps for Japanese Americans. Relinquishing her fellowship, Lange worked for the War Relocation Authority, documenting the internment. The Army impounded most of her images during the war. After the war, photographer Ansel Adams invited Lange to ...
B/W 1942/3 close up tilt down hands of soldier posting order for Japanese-American camps on telephone pole / doc. . More from this event View all
1941, military authorities immediately rounded up Japanese and placed them in internment camps. Those arrested on Oʻahu were initially crowded into the Honolulu Immigration Station pending a hearing or a short boat ride to Sand Island.
He spent the entire war in various POW camps in Wisconsin, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. He and others were offered educational opportunities through the “Internment University” that had lectures on English, geography, commerce, agriculture, music, Japanese poetry, Buddhist scriptures and other su...