Japanese-American family waiting for relocation to internment camp, 1942,

 Japanese-American family waiting for relocation to internment camp, 1942, photo by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, all Japanese, whether citizens or not, living on the West Coast were rounded up and sent to “internment camps” in the interior Mountain West. In 1988, the US government apologized and paid restitution to all camp survivors