Asian Americans
type: Concept
narrower: Japanese internment camps

Japanese internment camps
type: Concept
broader: Asian Americans
definition: The Japanese American Internment began on December 7, 1941, and ended in March of 1946. During the internment, roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, of which 70,000 were U.S. citizens by birth, spent much of the war detained in various government-run facilities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Japanese Internment Camps]

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Japanese internment camps