Clip: Japanese Internment Camp
Clip from Japanese Internment Camp
Description
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 10 Japanese-American internment camps were set up in the United States. The two easternmost of these were located in the Arkansas towns of Rohwer and Jerome. This 11 minute vignette takes viewers behind the scenes into a collection of items located at the Butler Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, that help paint the portrait of life inside one of these camps.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Why did the United States build these camps?
- What do the artifacts symbolize?
- How did the internees in the camps fill their time?
- What was the significance of the Dept. of Justice document that was presented in the video?
- How were the coupon books used?
- How did the internees use their surroundings to try to improve life around them?
- How do these artifacts reflect the spirit of the people who were in the camps?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Alien Enemy
- Executive Order
- Internees
- Internment Camp
- Pearl Harbor
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- World War Ii