Jeanne Wakatsuki-Mason Rangs

On December 7, 1942, exactly one year after the bomb attack on Pearl Harbor, the people of Manzanar broke. According to a child in the camp, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston, “Everything just came boiling up at once.” (pg. 53). Leading up to this, animosity grew as the people called for better treatment. The bells of the mess hall rang constantly and for many reasons. When these rang, they called for meetings with the general public. The bells rang for meetings about better food and wages, they rang for revolt, and they even rang for a complete return to Japan. The people were so up in arms that these meetings could be turned into anything from screaming matches to attempted arson, and everything intensified on December 5, two days before the December