America's Concentration Camps
Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 9:30 am and 6:30 pm, rebroadcast Tuesday, October 30 at 11:30 pm

In 1942, the first “War Relocation Center” opened in California. By the end of World War II, 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese U.S. residents had been displaced. Their only compensation: 25 dollars and a train ticket back home.

In this special edition of Due Process, Sandra King speaks with one of them - Lillian Kimura of Bloomfield. She and her family were forcibly interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center in Owen’s Valley, California, for three of her most impressionable years.

A former social worker, one-time director of the New York City YWCA, and past president of the Japanese American Citizens League, Kimura was 13 when she entered the camp. She has been an important voice in getting the United States government to apologize and grant reparations to Japanese-Americans, as well as to construct a memorial in downtown Washington D.C.