Japanese Internment Book Marked Sites
U.S. Government-related materials from the 1940s:
The War Relocation Authority's official report
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html
This is the official report about the "Relocation of Japanese
Americans" by the War Relocation Authority from May of 1943.
Lt. Gen. J.L. Dewitt on the Japanese evacuation
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/dewitt0.html
A portion of Lt. Gen. J.L. Dewitt's letter of transmittal to the Chief of Staff
of the U.S. Army about his final report on the Japanese evacuation from the
West Coast in 1942.
SAN FRANCISCO NEWS
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/intern8.html
A SAN FRANCISCO NEWS article defending the conditions of the internment camps.
In addition, this site has links to dozens of news articles and editorial
pieces from the newspaper that carried almost daily reports about the
internment experience. All of the articles are from March and April of 1942.
Executive order No. 9066
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/execordr.html
Executive Order No. 9066 - On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt ordered the evacuation of all Japanese Americans into the camps.
Sites from the last decade that demonstrate a dramatic shift in
attitudes toward the Japanese and the Japanese internment experience:
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988: Redress for Japanese Americans
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ora/main.html
Nearly 50 years later, the U.S. apologized to Japanese Americans for this grave
injustice and this Act was signed into law, authorizing the payments of $20,000
to each person who had been evacuated in the 1940s.
An apology from President George Bush
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/exhibit2.html
Scroll down for an image of the U.S. Government apology by President George
H.W. Bush.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/11/14/MN19887.DTL
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE article "S.F. Seeks Students Denied Diplomas Quest
for Japanese American internees". The article is about recent efforts to
make up for the past injustice.
Sites that give first-hand accounts from the survivors of the
Japanese-American internment experience:
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
http://www1.chron.com/content/interactive/special/vj/memories.html
This article is about a Japanese-American couple, their lives as newlyweds, and
the time they served at the Tule Lake Camp.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
http://voice.bloomu.edu/02-10-2000/Nation-World8.html
This article describes President Clinton's efforts to memorialize World War II
internment camps.
The Densho Project
http://www.densho.org/
The Densho Project site has a whole archive of personal stories about the
Japanese internment experience.