Evacuees and their few possessions are seen here boarding a train for the Manzanar Internment Camp. “Crowded into cars like cattle, these hapless people were hurried away to hastily constructed and thoroughly inadequate concentration camps,” observed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior. “We gave the fancy name of 'relocation centers' to these dust bowls, but they were concentration camps nonetheless."

Evacuees and their few possessions are seen here boarding a train for the Manzanar Internment Camp. “Crowded into cars like cattle, these hapless people were hurried away to hastily constructed and thoroughly inadequate concentration camps,” observed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior. “We gave the fancy name of 'relocation centers' to these dust bowls, but they were concentration camps nonetheless."