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in title, tags, annotations or urlJapanese-American Internment Camps - 2 views
Granada Japanese Internment Camp - 1 views
Poston Concentration Camp - 1 views
Outcasts! : the story of America's treatment of her Japanese-American minority - 18 views
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Four explanations have been advanced for the evacuation: military necessity, the protection of those evacuated, political and economic pressures, and racial prejudice.
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Briefly, the justification of the evacuation as military necessity is as follows:
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suggesting immediate removal of those of Japanese lineage as a racial group
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UW Libraries - Camp Harmony Exhibit - 4 views
Japanese Internment Camps - 9 views
A | More | Perfect | Union - 10 views
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.
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These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children,
Digital History - 15 views
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“Those Japanese and other aliens who move into the interior out of this area now will gain considerable advantage and in all probability will not again be disturbed,” he said.
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California faces the major problem with the Japanese on farm lands on the West Coast, the census figures reveal, as they are listed as owning 68 million dollars worth of farm lands here and only an additional two million dollars worth of farm lands in Oregon and Washington combined.
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They left San Francisco by the hundreds all through last January and February, seeking new homes and new jobs in the East and Midwest. In March, the Army and the Wartime Civil Control Administration took over with a new humane policy of evacuation to assembly and relocation centers where both the country and the Japanese could be given protection.
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Japanese American Internment Camps - 3 views
Islands | A multihued archipelago, tuned to soccer's harmonics : The Global Game - 0 views
Digital History - 5 views
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The Issei, or first generation, is considerably weakened in their loyalty to Japan by the fact that they have chosen to make this their home and have brought up their children here. They expect to die here. They are quite fearful of being put in a concentration camp. Many would take out American citizenship if allowed to do so. The haste of this report does not allow us to go into this more fully. The Issei have to break with their religion, their god and Emperor, their family, their ancestors and their after-life in order to be loyal to the United States. They are also still legally Japanese. Yet they do break, and send their boys off to the Army with pride and tears. They are good neighbors. They are old men fifty-five to sixty-five, for the most part simple and dignified. Roughly they were Japanese lower middle class, about analogous to the pilgrim fathers.
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