Japanese-Americans Imprisoned, but Unbowed, During World War II – The New York Times

Paul Kitagaki Jr. had just started out as a photographer in the late 1970s when an uncle mentioned to him that Dorothea Lange had once photographed his father and extended family waiting to board a bus in Oakland, Calif. Their destination? A temporary detention facility, one of 15 assembly centers along the West Coast, before they were sent to one of 10 permanent internment camps where 120,000 Japanese-Americans were confined after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.