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Internment and the Law
Leading to Internment:
How
did the U.S. Supreme Court respond to the internment of Japanese
Americans?
Supreme
Court Decisions:
How
did Presidents respond to the internment of Japanese Americans?
Presidential
Orders:
- President
Franklin Roosevelt's Executive
Order No. 9066 - Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe
Military Areas, February
19, 1942
- President
Franklin Roosevelt's Act
of March 21, 1942
- President
Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation
4417, Confirming the Termination of the Executive Order
Authorizing Japanese-American Internment During World War II,
February 19, 1976
- In
1980, President Jimmy Carter assisted Japanese Americans with
the issue of redress and the Commission on the Wartime Relocation
of and Internment of Civilians was created. In 1983, that Commission
issued a report titled, Personal
Justice Denied, in which it stated that relocation could
not be justified under the guise of military necessity. It further
found that relocation was the result of war hysteria, race prejudice
and a failure of political leadership.
- President
Bill Clinton's Letter to Internees
- President
George Bush's Letter to Internees
How
did Congress respond to the internment of Japanese Americans?
- Civil
Liberties Act of 1988, "Restitution for World War II
internment of Japanese-Americans and Aleuts" (signed by
President Ronald Regan)
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| "Exclusion
Order posted at First and Front Streets in San Francisco
directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from the
first section of the city to be affected by evacuation.
Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers
for the duration." FDR Library. April 1, 1942. |
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