1944 January 20 Secretary of War Stimson announces that Japanese Americans are again eligible for the draft. October 16 Supreme Court met and decided that the WRA had no authority to hold Japanese Americans against their will once they had been found to be loyal to the United States. 1945 January through October Evacuees returning home are faced with a number of hostile attacks. These include countless attacks on the person and property of newly released evacuees. Last train of evacuees leave Heart Mountain.
All relocation camps are now empty.
The WRA officially goes out of business. The 96 th Congress enacts Public Law 96-317 establishing the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Interment of Civilians. August 10 President Reagan signed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. 50,000 of those who were evacuated to camps had died by 1988. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.