Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese AmericansUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center, 1992 - Concentration camps - 120 pages "The days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were dark days of the American spirit. Unable to strike back effectively against the Japanese Empire, Americans in the Western states lashed out at fellow citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, was the instrument that allowed military commanders to designate areas 'from which any or all persons may be excluded.' Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in the interior. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, who represented the Department of Justice in the "relocation," writes in the Epilogue to this book : 'The truth is--as this deplorable experience proves--that constitutions and laws are not sufficient of themselves. Despite the unequivocal language of the Constitution of the United States that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, and despite the Fifth Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, both of these constitutional safeguards were denied by military action under Executive Order 9066'"--Back cover. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
100th Battalion Alexander Leighton American Citizens League American National Museum American Studies Center Ansel Adams anti-Japanese anti-Orientalism Arizona Asian American Studies California April California Historical Society California June 16 California May 20 Carey McWilliams Caucasians Chinese citizenship Clem Albers Colorado River Relocation concentration camps desert Dorothea Lange Evacuation day evacuation photographs EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 experience farmer fear FSA Los Angeles Idaho immigration incarceration internment Japan Japanese American Citizens Japanese American National Japanese ancestry Japanese descent Kearney Korematsu lived Manzanar Relocation Center Minidoka Relocation Center Nisei persons of Japanese Post-Intelligencer Bainbridge Island quoted in Carey racial Richard Conrat River Relocation Center Roosevelt Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bainbridge Tanforan Assembly Center Tule Lake Center U.S. Army U.S. Supreme Court UCLA UCLA Asian American United War Relocation Authority Washington March 30 Western Defense Command World War II WRA Centerville WRA Hayward WRA Hunt WRA Manzanar WRA Newell WRA San Bruno WRA San Francisco