Saburo Kido (far right), National President of the Japanese American Citizens League, a civil rights group, with other lawyers at Poston Camp Number 1 in Poston, Arizona, on Jan. 4, 1943.

Japanese Americans arrive at the Colorado River Relocation Center, Camp 1, in Poston, Arizona, on May 20, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act to justify the ...

The Poston War Relocation Center, near the Colorado River, is the largest such camp in America and the third-largest "city" ...

Kay Ochi’s parents were 21 and 22 years old when they were forced to leave San Diego, where they were born, and taken to an incarceration camp in the desert of Poston, Arizona, simply because of ...

In July 1942, just shy of her 21st birthday, Helen was sent south to the Poston Internment Camp in Yuma County, Arizona. ... Roy went back to the Poston Internment Camp in search of a wife.

Ichiye Ochi (right) with an unidentified friend is pictured in 1943 at a World War II Japanese American internment camp in Poston, Arizona. On Jan. 27 1942, just 51 days after Japan attacked Pearl ...

GalleryUsing pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the Poston camp during World War II. When Jennifer Sakai's ...

My mother, aunt, grandparents and half-sister were interned in Poston, Arizona during World War II. My mother would on occasion refer to her experience in “camp” but to me as a child I was ...

Arizona Poston Poston (Ariz.) Data Source Smithsonian Libraries Topic Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Research World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Research Asian ...

Then they were shipped to Poston, Arizona — one of 10 camps the U.S. government created to incarcerate people of Japanese descent. San Diego leaders, meanwhile, supported and praised the ...

Two of the nation's internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II were in Arizona. For a time they became the state’s third and fourth biggest cities.