World War II: Japanese American Internment
On December 7, 1941, 353 Japanese planes attacked the United States naval base
at Pearl Harbor. Little did Japanese American realize what a turning point this
attack would be in their own lives. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which gave the military broad powers to
ban any citizen from a coastal area stretching from Washington state to California
and extending inland into southern Arizona. For the next four years, more than
120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry—77,000 of them American citizens—were
removed from this area and incarcerated indefinitely without criminal charges or
trial
Recommended Collections:
D769.8.A6 A5 1942h. United States. Congress. House. Select Committee
Investigating National Defense Migration. National Defense Migration : Fourth
Interim Report ... Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session Pursuant to H. Res.
113 ... Findings and Recommendations On Evacuation of Enemy Aliens and Others
From Prohibited Military Zones. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942.
PAM D 769.8 .A6 A55x. United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on
Un-American Activities. Establishment of the War Relocation Centers : Report
and Minority Views of the Special Committee On Un-American Activities On
Japanese War Relocation Centers. [Washington: U.S.G.P.O., 1943.
PAM D769.8 .A6 S56x. McWilliams, Carey, Robert R Gros, Max Radin, and
John M Costello. Should All Japanese Continue to Be Excluded From the West
Coast for the Duration? Columbus, Ohio: American Education Press, 1943.
PAM D 769.8 .A6 C67 1943. Cosgrave, Margaret. Relocation of AmericanJapanese Students. [S.l.: s.n., 1943.]
D769.8.A6 O27. O'Brien, Robert W. 1907-. The College Nisei. Palo Alto, Calif:
Pacific Books, 1949.
Sumiko Kobayashi papers, Collection # MSS073/Box 1, folder 1: Copy of Civilian
Exclusion Order No. 34 (There are plenty of other interesting items in this box
related to internment.)
Box 2: Scrapbook of clippings on WWII in Pacific
Sumiko Kobayashi papers (addendum), Collection # MSS073A Box 11, folder 1:
Pencil sketch of Tanforan Assembly Center by Sumiko Kobayashi (any of the
other sketches would be fine to show too.)
Other Sources of Information:
Fold3 – World War II collection – www.fold3.com
Japanese American National Museum - http://www.janm.org/. This site includes
online collections, maps of camps, and artwork and graphics associated with
internment.