The Conditions of Manzanar:
Manzanar Camp Conditions: RATED HORRIBLE, NASTY, GROSS, and BAD!
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No Privacy, No space, and always with STRANGERS!
Conditions:
In the Manzanar internment camp, living conditions were small and intimate and private actions were scarcely kept that way. The most harsh and difficult part of the communal aspects were the latrines, which were not separated into men’s and women’s, just communal toilets and showers bearing no stalls. This aspect of interned life proved to strip away the most private of actions, which was probably the harshest condition in the aspect of a communal life. The easier aspects of this were the communal mess hall, recreation hall, and ironing room, which accompanied every one of the 36 blocks of living quarters in the residential area contained in a square mile.
What Happened?
With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 all suspected and even innocent Japanese people and Japanese Americans were sent to various camps in the US. One such camp, Manzanar, was considered to have bad camp conditions. That is why the residents of Manzanar protest to try and get better living conditions.
