The impact of living in the camps on people’s sense of pride, dignity, and self-respect was enormous.
Surrounded by barbed-wire fences—and under the constant gaze of armed guards—inmates endured the discomforts, forced regimens, and indignities of confinement. Even so, they strove to maintain some semblance of a normal life, starting schools, churches, and sports teams. But they were never able to escape from the reality that fear and racial prejudice had caused the U.S. government to strip them of their Constitutional rights.
Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of National Archives
Courtesy of National Archives
