Sentences with phrase «internment camps built»

In Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds, Harry Fukuhara, his sister Mary, and his niece Jeanie were forced into internment camps built to house people of Japanese descent who were living in the United States during World War II.

The film rapidly unfurls inside the walls of over-populated slum metropolis, Mega City One, a city - sized internment camp built on the still - smouldering rubble of nuclear apocalypse.

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If this is a building of the God of Jonah and the God of Jesus Christ, whose priorities, strange though they may seem to us, are crystal clear, it follows that there must be a special place in this building for those who bring to it the experience of a reservation, the experience of an internment camp, the experience of a ghetto, the experience of a barrio, the experience of being last, and forgotten, and persecuted.

The Maze, also known as Long Kesh, or simply the Maze, was built on an airfield and opened in 1971 as an internment camp to house prisoners and paramilitary offenders arrested and...

The Maze, also known as Long Kesh, or simply the Maze, was built on an airfield and opened in 1971 as an internment camp to house prisoners and paramilitary offenders arrested and detained without trial as part of the British government's response to unrest in Northern Ireland.

Renditions of its limestone surface are slapped onto buildings, and it shares a name with a Japanese internment camp, which used its lowlands to house over 11,000 detained Japanese Americans during World War II.

It was from the White House — a building that one architecture writer described as containing an «air of reticence and good breeding» — that Jackson oversaw the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and that Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that condemned Japanese Americans to internment camps almost a century later.