Japanese Interment Camps in Texas?

Question

For my history fair project, I wanted anything that had something to do with the Japanese culture. So I wind up getting this topic somehow... The major problem is, I don't know much about how it relates to the main idea: Conflict and Compromise. Could someone help me out here!? It's a major grade...

Answer 1

This site has a map with only one camp in Texas at Crystal City.

www.historyonthenet.com
/WW2/japan_internment_
camps.htm

This is a very good site to learn firsthand from people who were there what it was like.

library.thinkquest.org/
TQ0312008/

I lived about a mile from one of the camps in Salinas, but I was born after the war was over and there were no people still there then. In the 50's the barracks were used to house the Braceros who came to work in the fields.

The conflict would be that we were at war with Japan but there were Japanese/Americans living here in the USA. Were they for us or Japan? They didn't want to risk that they might be for Japan so they rounded them all up and put them in these internment camps so they could keep an eye on them. So the camps were the compromise instead of getting rid of them by sending them back to Japan or something worse.

Answer 2

There is a huge garden in San Antonio called the japenese gardens. It dropped that name during the war and then regained it. That is the only texas/jap history I know of.