Mass_Evacuation

Mass Evacuation Mass Evacuation From the mid-1800s through World War II, the San Francisco Bay area was in constant turmoil with people of Asian decent. This conflict eventually permeated the surrounding areas and made its way to lawmakers in Washington D.C.. During the Second World War, fear and hysteria led to an eruption with the unwarranted relocation of close to 110,000 Japanese-Americans. Many of these people were born in the United States and had never stepped foot outside of America or visited Japan. Some had children and siblings fighting in the war. The poet Dwight Okita had family who lived in the internment camps and migrated to Chicago after their captivity. Living in a large Japanese-American community, Okita was likely told of his family heritage and their plight during World War II. He wrote a poem through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old girl called “In Response to Executive Order 9066.” This poem expresses the feelings of the many people who were forced to move away from the only lives that they knew and to live in the camps. Just before the turn of the century, there was an increased number of Japanese immigration to the United States. war, japanese, poem, united, states, 1019, ozawa, conrat, after, world, says, relocation, people, order, laws, japs, japanese-americans, chinese, before, american, way, time, through, saying, property, president, over, one, okita’s, okita, moved, made, lost, japanese-american, jap