In which decade was the forced relocation of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps?

Amid the rampant racism and paranoia that followed the December, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an order directing the forced relocation and incarceration of all people of Japanese descent in the United States. Of the 120,000 people interned, 62% were United States citizens and 80% were American-born, second-generation immigrants. Anyone who was even 1/16th Japanese was included, as were 17,000 children and thousands of elderly and disabled people. The evacuees were initially held at temporary centers - typically fairgrounds or racetracks where they were forced to live in horse stalls and other buildings intended for livestock. Months later, they were relocated to one of ten relocation camps, where they were housed in hastily erected tar paper-covered military style barracks; frequently, 25 people were forced to live in a space meant for four. Food shortages and poor sanitation were not uncommon.

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