Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps · Executive Order 9066 ... Internment Japanese Americans: Click to View or Add Links. ... |
Relocation of Japanese Americans. Washington, D.C. : War Relocation Authority, 1943. Return to the Japanese Internment page. ... |
The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps—officially called "relocation centers"—in ... |
4. Timeline of Japanese Internment
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
Explore the first eight dates of this timeline as an introduction to your research. Pay close attention to the cause and effect relationship between the dates. Proceed to the next link after documenting information from the first eight dates.
http://www.jainternment.org/ww2/pearl.html
Read this web page about Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s subsequent participation in World War II. Keep in mind how the attack affected the treatment and attitudes toward Japanese Americans. Proceed to the next link after documenting any important information.
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/clinton.html
Read this copy of former President Bill Clinton’s apology to Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps during World War II. Look for information within this apology about the appropriateness of Executive Order 9066 in responding to hysteria against Japanese Americans.
For several weeks there have been increasing demands for evacuation of all Japanese, aliens and citizens alike, from the West Coast states. A great many West Coast people distrust the Japanese, various special interests would welcome their removal from good farm land and the elimination of their competition... My last advice from the War Department is that there is no evidence of imminent attack and from the F.B.I. that there is no evidence of planned sabotage.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/politicians.html#biddle
"Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese."
Source: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/politicians.html#stimson
Japanese leaders in California who are counseling their people, both aliens and native-born, to co-operate with the Army in carrying out the evacuation plans are, in effect, offering the best possible way for all Japanese to demonstrate their loyalty to the United States.
Many aliens and practically all the native-born have been protesting their allegiance to this Government. Although their removal to inland districts outside the military zones may inconvenience them somewhat, even work serious hardships upon some, they must certainly recognize the necessity of clearing the coastal combat areas of all possible fifth columnists and saboteurs. Inasmuch as the presence of enemy agents cannot be detected readily when these areas are thronged by Japanese the only course left is to remove all persons of that race for the duration of the war.
Real danger would exist for all Japanese if they remained in the combat area. The least act of sabotage might provoke angry reprisals that easily could balloon into bloody race riots. We must avoid any chance of that sort of thing. The most sensible, the most humane way to insure against it is to move the Japanese out of harms way and make it as easy as possible for them to go and to remain away until the war is over.
Source: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/editorial1.html
10. The Internment of Japanese- Americans Was Not Justified (1944) by Frank Murphy
11. On Japanese American Internment (various authors)
12. And Justice For All by John Tateishi
Based on the information contained in the sources listed above and your knowledge of the topic, formulate and support a thesis to the following question:
Was the internment of Japanese Americans justified?????