The Decision to Intern Japanese Americans
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This
short, silent film from 1942 shows scenes of Japanese-Americans
being shipped out of California on their way to "internment."
http://archive.org/details/ssfjapint
Time:
23 seconds, format: AVI, file size: 5.6 M
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People
involved in the incarceration:
Identify
the following figures who helped make the decision to intern Japanese
Americans:
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Major Karl R. Bendetsen, Chief of the Aliens
Division
- Attorney
General Francis Biddle
- Lieutenant
General John L. De Witt
- Judge
Advocate General Allen W. Gullion
- Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
- Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson
Agencies
involved in Incarceration
- Western
Defense Command was an army command area consisting of eight
western states.
- Wartime
Civil Control Administration (WCCA) was responsible for the
"assembly centers" evacuation.
- War
Relocation Authority (WRA) ran the concentration camps.
Read the following pieces of evidence and explain:
- Why
did the U.S. decide to relocate the entire west coast Japanese
American population?
- Who
was most responsible for this decision?
Primary
Source Documents:
1941
1942
- Attack
on Pearl Harbor: Report of the Commission Appointed by the
President of the United States to Investigate and Report the
Facts Relating to the Attack Made by Japanese Armed Forces Upon
Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii on December 7, 1941
[Roberts Commission, named after U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Owen Roberts], January 23, 1942
- Statements
by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, January 26, 1942
- Statements
by Representative Leland Ford, Republican of California,
Dec., 1941 & Jan, 1942
- John
L. De Witt to Karl R. Bendetsen,
Transcript of telephone conversation, January 30, 1942
- Walter
Lippmann, “The Fifth Column,” Los Angeles Times,
February 13, 1942
- California
Attorney General Earl Warren, February 21, 1942
- Newspaper
Articles about Internment,
March - May, 1942.
- Newspaper
headlines from the Los Angeles Times, from December 1941
to February, 1942
- Father
Hugh T. Lavey, Catholic Maryknoll Center
- John
L. De Witt to Karl R. Bendetsen, Transcript
of telephone conversation, January 30, 1942
- Meeting
of the California House of Representatives Delegation, January
30, 1942
- Attorney
General Francis Biddle to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
February 12, 1942
- Attorney
General Francis Biddle to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
February 17, 1942
1943
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Salinas,
California. Japanese-Americans boarding bus for transportation
to reception center.
Russell Lee, photographer, 1942 May. Library of Congress. |
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