Primary Source Workshop on Japanese Internment
by admin - November 4th, 2014
I recommend you spend at least 1 hour exploring some of these links and resources to help you understand this important episode, and considering how it relates to the history of American citizenship in the 20th century:
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Primary documents relating to relocation (National Archives, scroll down to the list)
Ansel Adams’ Photographs at Manzanar (Library of Congress)
Dear Miss Breed, letters from children in camp (Japanese American National Museum)
War Relocation Authority Documents (Truman Presidential Library)
Loyalty Questionnaire (Smithsonian)
442nd Regimental Combat Team (recruited from within the camps) – photographs from Calisphere
442nd Regimental Combat Team (recruited from within the camps) – documents, University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Special Collections
Case files of claimants under the Japanese Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 (National Archives)
1982 Report: Personal Justice Denied (National Archives)
Proclamation 4417, Gerald Ford 1976 (Ford Presidential Library)
Dr Suess Goes to War political cartoons 1941-1943 (University of California San Diego)
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the US Constitution (Smithsonian)
Supreme Court cases:
Korematsu v. US (1944) | background on the case
Hirabayashi v. US (1943, reopened and vacated 1987) | background on the case
Yasui v. US (1943, reopened and vacated 1984) | background on the case
Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944) | background on the case
