Japanese-American Internment
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Japanese-American Internment
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Purpose: Prevent possible sabotage
Result of:existing prejudice towards Japanese Americans
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Anti-Japanese began with Japanese immigration in the 1890s
Americans called this the “Yellow Flood”
Over 100,000 Japanese immigrated
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White Americans saw the Japanese as economic competition during the Depression
Created a strong and enduring resentment of Japanese immigrants and their descendents.
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“Of all the races ineligible to [sic] citizenship, the Japanese are the least assimilable and the most dangerous to the country. … They come … for the purpose of colonizing and establishing here the proud Yamato race. They never cease to be
Japanese.” -Valentine S. McClatchy, A wealthy California Newspaper owner testifying to Congress.
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Resentment of Japanese grew into an unfounded suspicion of treachery based more on racism than actual evidence
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Government placed restrictions on Japanese Americans and their movements
Executive Order 9066 allowed the military to intern anyone they felt necessary
Lieutenant General John L. De Witt given power to relocate those he saw fit
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“For the most part the local Japanese are loyal to the United States … We do not believe that they would be at the least any more disloyal than any other racial group in the United States with whom we went to war.”-Curtis MunsonState Department
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“A Jap is a Jap. They are a dangerous element … There is no way to determine their loyalty … It makes no difference whether he is an American; theoretically he is still a Japanese, and you can’t change him … by giving him a piece of paper.”- General De Witt,speaking to a congressional committee.
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Vast majority of Japanese Americans were loyal to the US
Tried to show loyalty despite discrimination
"[I pledge to] assume my duties and obligations as a citizen, cheerfully and without any reservations whatsoever, in the hope that I may become a better American in a greater America.” - Japanese American Citizens League Pledge
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No Japanese American was ever convicted of treason during World War II
“[Though Japanese internment] was justified to us on the grounds that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty.”-Henry Steele CommagerWriter for Harper’s Magazine
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Military singled out the Japanese Americans for relocation
Restrictions were not equally applied
Restrictions fell harder on Japanese descent rather than Italians or Germans
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Gila River, AZ
Heart Mountain, WY
70 internment camps were spread out over the country
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Western area internment camps
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George Takei (Star Trek’s Mr.Sulu) was placed in a camp in Rohwer, Arkansas
Brothers & sister were given a tag to wear which identified his family
Transported on buses and trains – most possessions either sold or left behind
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Incarceration and seizure of property without justification violated due process of law
Deprivation of equal protection under the law violated the Constitution
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Section One, Article Fourteen of the Constitution of the United States:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States … are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge [their] privileges and immunities … [nor] deprive life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to an person … the equal protection of the laws.”
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War hysteria and sense of control resulted in this injustice
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American Evacuation Claims Act of 1948
Government paid $2,500 to each Japanese American individual who was put into an internment camp
“Congress recognizes that, as described in the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, a grave injustice was done to both citizens and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry by the evacuation, relocation, and internment of civilians during World War II.”
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Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Acknowledge the injustice To apologize on behalf of the people of the United States
Provide a public education fund to inform the public about the internment
Make restitution to those Japanese who were interned
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