Notes from Return to manzanar
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- March 25,1942
- The first evacuees arrived at Manzanar
- issei
- Born in Japan;They immigrated and are prohibited from becoming citizens
- December 7 1941
- Day that the Japanese bombed pearl harbor
- nisei
- Born in the U.S and are citizens. Their parents are issei
- 1870
- Congress grants naturalization rights to groups of people of African descent and free whites
- sansei
- The 2cnd generation- The children of the nisei
- December 18,1944
- The U.S supreme court ruled that no loyal citizen can be held in detention camps
- 1869
- The first Japanese settle in the U.S in Sacramento California.
- Nov.21,1945
- Manzanar was officially closed
- 1988
- As apart of the american cival liberties act, "apologies reimbursed 20,000 perperson