The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II / by Jan Jarboe Russell.
Publication Info.
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
"Thorndike Press large print nonfiction"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children to a family internment camp in Texas. Crystal City was the center of a government program called "quiet passage," under which hundreds were exchanged for more important Americans held behind enemy lines. Jan Jarboe Russell details a little-known story of how the definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war.