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Children of the Camps | INTERNMENT HISTORY - 6 views

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  • Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.
    • Michael Eppolito
       
      This explains what Executive order 9066 is.
  • These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children,
    • Michael Eppolito
       
      Would that mean almost 60,000 children?
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Group Japanese Internment's best content - 2 views

  • Alien Land Laws - 0 views
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      This is a good site to use for the project.
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San Francisco's mayor wants exclusion act to bar the Japs. Eugene E. Schmitz, labor cha... - 6 views

  • San Francisco's labor mayor, the Hon. Eugene E. Schmitz,
  • "The Japanese are far more dangerous to us than the Chinese,"
  • Japs are to be feared more than the Chinese, primarily because of the cheapness of their labor.
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  • Where a Chinese will work upon a farm at starvation wages, a Japanese has the ability to acquire the property itself. The Chinese are dangerous enough, but the Japanese would drive all competition out of business. It is the stern duty of the American citizen, and particularly of those of us upon this western coast, to scrutinise this evil and then suppress it with appropriate legislation."
  • "I would sooner see the bars of civilization let down on this western borderland to the heathen Chinese, and meet all of the grave dangers incidental to their coming, than to witness an unrestricted Japanese immigration, fraught with the many great evils that would at once beset our industrial welfare if the brown toilers of the mikado's realm were permitted to swarm through our gates unhindered."
    • Michael Eppolito
       
      See how the mayor of San Francisco compares Chinese to Japanese. Also "mikado's realm" refers to Japan.
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    This newspaper article gives you a good idea about US attitudes about Japanese workers in San Francisco in 1900, 42 years before internment.
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1920 Anti-Japanese Crusade - 1 views

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    The newspaper articles on this page are a good resource for understanding and finding information on economic issues.
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    The newspaper articles on this page are helpful for understanding economic issues around internment.
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    The newspaper articles on this page are helpful for finding information about economic issues.
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Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresse... - 0 views

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    This site includes some photographs of camp life.
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A | More | Perfect | Union - 0 views

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    This has some great images and information.
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Group Japanese Internment's best content - 6 views

  • Internet Archive: Free Download: Japanese Relocation - 0 views
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      Look at this site for the poster
  • Outcasts! : the story of America's treatment of her Japanese-American minority - 1 views
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      Use this site for your poster
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Internet Archive: Free Download: Japanese Relocation - 2 views

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    Here the head the War Relocation Authority justifies the internment of Japanese on the west coast.
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