The Internment of Japanese Americans
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- Thanksgiving 1941, California
- USS Oklahoma
- USS Arizona
- Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941
- USS Nevada
- USS Utah
- HYSTERIA
- PARANOIA
- Executive Order 9066
- YELLOW PERIL
- ("A Brief History")
- Bombing of Pearl Harbor
- after eo 9066, 120,000 japanese americans were sent to internment camps; half were under 21; two-thirds were american citizens.
- NOTICEInstruction to all persons of JapaneseAncestry:Live in the following areas:
- all suspected of being alien enemies
- WARTIME CIVIL CONTROL AND ADMINISTRATION
- GET 'EM OUT!
- Japanese Americans
- (Stockton)(Dundes Renteln)
- Manzanar War Relocation Center
- (Stockton)
- Manzar housed 10,000 Japanese Americans in 504 barracks. They lived in 20X24 rooms with communal latrines and little privacy.
- Why?I am an American Citizen.
- Why?We are innocent.
- (Dundes Renteln)
- FAMILY NAME _______NO. 133127RETAINED BY PERSON TO WHOM ISSUED
- ("Nothing Captures")
- We lost our house, but we'll make a new home.
- 3 YEARS LATER
- Are we going home?
- CIVIL LIBERTIES ACT1988Reparations will be paid to Japanese Americans who were wrongly interned by the United States Government during World War II.
- The US Commission on Wartime Relocation ruled that EO 9066 was not justified by military necessity - it was shaped byRACE PREJUDICE AND WAR HYSTERIA.
- (Yoshida)
- thanksgiving 1988, California
- But we must recall our past and hold space for the joy and the pain.
- I'm grateful to be surrounded by my family and the life we have built in America.
- And share our story so others will never endure what we experienced.
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