HIS 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jitterbug
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The internment of those of japanese heritage, part ii: many of those of japanese heritage had to sell homes, businesses, and land at a fraction of their values, suffering a total estimated property loss of to. In 1948, congress compensated them less than 10 cents on every dollar of estimated loss in real and personal property. In time, some internees were given permission to leave the internment camps to go to inland agricultural areas, like idaho, to alleviate the wartime labor shortage by harvesting crops. Fewer than one-half of the japanese forced to leave the west coast for internment ever returned: the government had known exactly where to look for those of japanese heritage. U. s. census bureau provided the military with the names, addresses, ages, gender, citizenship status, and country of birth for only one group -- those of. In california, 52,000 italian-americans were confined to their homes from 8 p. m. until 6 a. m. under a curfew.
