Entitled: "The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order Japanese try to sell their belongings." The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of between 110,000-120,000people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. 62% of the internees were United States citizens. These actions were ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment is considered to have resulted more from racism than from any security risk posed by Japanese-Americans. Those who were as little as 1/16 Japanese and orphaned infants with "one drop of Japanese blood" were placed in internment camps. The majority of nearly 130,000 Japanese Americans living in the U.S. mainland were forcibly relocated from their West Coast homes during the spring of 1942. The best known facilities were the military-run Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers and the civilian-run War Relocation Authority Relocation Centers. Scholars have urged dropping such euphemisms and refer to them as concentration camps and the people as incarcerated. Nine of the ten WRA camps were shut down by the end of 1945. Photographed by Russell Lee, 1942.