Transcript Japanese Internment - Mayfield City Schools

 Alien
 Nativism
 Xenophobia
 Issei
 Nisei
 Internment
 Executive
Order
Nisei soldier World War II era
Relating,
belonging or owing allegiance
to another country
an
opposition to immigration
Belief
that those already in the United
States were superior to any immigrants
coming to America
Is
a dislike and/or fear of that which is
unknown or different from oneself.
Fear
of foreigners, especially minority
groups
 Issei-
first generation of Japanese
immigrants to the US
 Nisei- Japanese children
(2nd generation)
 Sansei-
 Terms
born in America
Grandchildren of the Issei (3rd)
come from the Japanese words for
1,2,3 ("ichi, ni, san.“)
An
executive order in the United States
is an order issued by the President, the
head of the executive branch
Internment
is the imprisonment or
confinement of people, commonly in
large groups, without trial
The
Japanese were forced from their
homes on the West Coast and forced
into internment camps
 signed
and issued during World War II by
U.S. President FDR on February 19, 1942
ordering Japanese Americans to internment
camps
 Internment
lasted until 1944 when FDR
rescinded his order- the last camp closed in
1945
Over
120,000 Japanese forced into
camps (some German, Italians)
More
than 2/3 of the Japanese who
were interned in the spring of 1942
were citizens of the United States.
 FDR
& Executive Order 9066
5th
amendment due process rights?
"The
privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended, unless
when in cases of rebellion or invasion
the public safety may require it.“
Habeas
Corpus means you can’t be
held without being charged with a
crime
Wanto Grocery, owned by an Asian American, UC
Berkeley graduate. (California, December 1941)
Reading evacuation orders on a bulletin board in Los
Angeles. These families will have as little as one week to
report to the relocation center. (1942) Library of Congress.
Dorothea Lange, “One Nation Indivisible.” Pledge of
Allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks
prior to evacuation. (San Francisco, 1942)
Japanese Americans register for internment at the Santa Anita
reception center in Los Angeles. (1942) Library of Congress
Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old train station
in Los Angeles, CA. The train will take them to Owens Valley.
(April 1942) Library of Congress
Japanese Americans waiting to board the train that will take
them to the internment camp in Owens Valley. (April 1942)
“All Packed Up and Ready to Go” Editorial Cartoon, San
Francisco News (March 6, 1942)
Family arriving in internment camp barracks, from the
Tacoma New Tribune, University of Washington. (no date)
An American Soldier on guard duty at an internment camp
holds a Japanese American child. Tacoma News Tribune,
University of Washington.
Internment camp mess hall. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, University
of Washington.
Byron, Takashi Tsuzuki, Forced Removal, Act II, 1944. Japanese
American National Museum Collection.
G.S. Hante, a barber in Kent, Washington, displays his sentiments
about internment. (March 1944)
Armed
guards were posted at the
camps, which were all in remote,
desolate areas far from population
centers
barbed-wire-surrounded
with
unpartitioned toilets, cots for beds, and
a budget of 45 cents daily per capita
for food rations
Some
Japanese were actually shot for
leaving the boundaries of the camp
Most
families were allowed to stay
together
Issei
(1st generation) were given less
respect than others
 The
442nd Infantry, formerly the 442nd
Regimental Combat Team of the United
States Army, was an Asian American unit
composed of mostly Japanese Americans
 The
most highly decorated regiment in the
history of the United States Armed Forces,
including 21 Medal of Honor recipients in
Europe during World War II
Korematsu
refused to go to internment
camps so he was arrested
Supreme
Court ruled that internment
was allowed in order to protect national
security
US
Supreme Court decision that
allowed formal racism
 In
1988, the U.S. Congress passed
legislation which awarded formal payments
of $20,000 each to the surviving internees—
60,000 in all ($1.2 Billion)
 In
1992 George HW Bush offered a formal
apology and awarded an additional $400 m
 In
all 82,210 Japanese Americans received
$1.6 billion
George H. W. Bush’s apology to
Japanese Americans held in
the internment camps. (1988)