Primary Sources: Harold Ickes' Letter to Roosevelt on Japanese Internment - Formative Staff | Biblioteka

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What historical question does this source BEST help to answer?

What was a day in a life like for a Japanese American living in an internment camp?

How did Japanese Americans protest the injustices within the Japanese Internment camps?

How did political officials respond to the injustices in the Japanese Internment Camps?

How did political officials express their dissatisfication to the president about the Japanese internment camps?

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changing internment camps to prisoner camps to stop the ongoing issues with Japanese-Americans in the internment camps

relocating Japanese Americans throughout the country instead of within internment camps

sending representatives from the War Relocation Authority to deal with the ongoing issues in the internment camps

employing Japanese American families through factory work or serving in the U.S. armed forces

D2.His.16.9-12

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"I have your letter of April 13th calling to my attention that the Japanese-Americans in relocation centers are becoming embittered."
"Like you I regret that military necessity has imposed the burden of evacuation and detention upon these people."
"The result has been the turning of thousands of well-meaning and loyal Japanese into angry prisoners."

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