VISUAL ACTIVITYJapanese Internment This photo shows Japanese Americans who were rounded up and confined to the horse barns and race track at Santa Anita, California, before being shipped out to internment camps throughout the western states. The imprisoned people on the left are saying good-bye to their friends seen waving from the windows of the train shown on the right, which was taking them to internment camps.READING THE IMAGE: Why were these women, men, and children surrounded by high barbed-wire fences? What kinds of connections does the photo depict among the Japanese Americans at Santa Anita? CONNECTIONS: How did World War II influence racial discrimination and civil rights in the United States?

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