High schoolers preserved a Japanese internment camp for decades. Now, it’s a national park. (upworthy.com)
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, a wave of fear ran through the country that led America to violate the civil liberties of tens of thousands of its own citizens. In 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese ancestry in ten camps throughout the country. Two-thirds of those interned were U.S. citizens. The smallest of the camps, Amache in southeast Colorado, housed...