Colorado Experience
Amache 1-Hour Special
Season 1 Episode 114 | 56m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Over 7500 Japanese Americans were interned in the Granada War Relocation Center.
After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, roughly 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment camps across the United States. Colorado Governor Ralph Carr fought to bring a camp to Colorado, where he felt its internees would be safe from harm. The Granada Relocation Center, more commonly known as Amache, held 7,567 internees - making it the tenth largest city in Colorado.
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Colorado Experience is a local public television program presented by RMPBS
Colorado Experience
Amache 1-Hour Special
Season 1 Episode 114 | 56m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, roughly 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment camps across the United States. Colorado Governor Ralph Carr fought to bring a camp to Colorado, where he felt its internees would be safe from harm. The Granada Relocation Center, more commonly known as Amache, held 7,567 internees - making it the tenth largest city in Colorado.
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