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Internment Camps
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066. Its tone was carefully neutral: It authorized the War Department to designate "military areas" and then exclude anyone from them whom it felt to be a danger. But it had a specific target: the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, living along the West Coast. They were about to be forced from their homes and moved inland.
Additionally, many Americans overseas were placed in internment camps by the Japanese. When Manila was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army in December of 1941, the University of Santo Tomas -- an educational institution established and run by Spanish Dominican priests, then already more than 300 years old -- was used as an internment camp for civilian Allied nationals who had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the worst time.
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066. Its tone was carefully neutral: It authorized the War Department to designate "military areas" and then exclude anyone from them whom it felt to be a danger. But it had a specific target: the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, living along the West Coast. They were about to be forced from their homes and moved inland.
Additionally, many Americans overseas were placed in internment camps by the Japanese. When Manila was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army in December of 1941, the University of Santo Tomas -- an educational institution established and run by Spanish Dominican priests, then already more than 300 years old -- was used as an internment camp for civilian Allied nationals who had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the worst time.
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Barracks at the Granda Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado. Robert Kashiwagi was interred here at the start of the war.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 14)
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Asako Tokuno, right, worked at the beauty parlor at Topaz Camp, where she was interned during the war.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Japanese-Americans get settled in their apartment at the Puyallup Assembly Center in Washington.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 8)
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A trip to an internment camp changed his opinion of mainland Japanese Americans.
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Japanese-Americans give a musical performance at Topaz internment camp. July 1945.
Source: National Archives (210-CT-725)
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Susumu Satow and Asako Tokuno recall life in the internment camps.
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In Sacramento, soon after Order 9066 was issued, hand-lettered signs went up all over town, saying “Japs must go.”
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U.S. Government-produced film defending the World War II internment of Japanese-American citizens. (9:25)
Source: Produced by the U.S. Office of War Information
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The Japanese-American owner of a grocery store in Oakland, CA, closed following evacuation orders hung a sign reading "I AM AN AMERICAN" the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. April 1942.
Source: National Archives (WC-0772)
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Houses at Manzanar, the Japanese-American internment camp, are covered with tarpaper for the winter. 1943.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10479-2, no. 4 [P&P])
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Japanese-Americans evacuees at a control station in San Francisco. April 6, 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 2)
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Japanese-American evacuees, under the watchful eye of U.S. soldiers, wait outside trains at Santa Anita Assembly Center. April 5, 1942.
Source: National Archives (WC-0780)
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Under the watchful eyes of the U.S. Army, a Japanese-American family is evacuated from San Francisco. 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 2)
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Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Army, Japanese-Americans are evacuated from Salinas, California. May 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-072513-D)
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At the Sant Anita reception center, guards examine the bags of Japanese-American evacuees. April 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF 34-72317-D)
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A notice posted at 9th and K Streets in Sacramento announces evacuation orders for all Japanese-Americans. May 8, 1942.
Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (85-24-1864)
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Japanese-American evacuees board a bus in San Francisco. April 6, 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 2)
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In Sacramento, Executive Order 9066 forced Japanese-American families to leave behind homes and successful businesses and relocate to internment camps.
Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (85-24-1901)
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Bags packed, identification tags hang from necks of the Mochida family of Hayward, CA, preparing for relocation. May 8, 1942
Source: National Archives (WC-0776)
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Two Japanese-American boys, evacuees, one wearing a "Remember Pearl harbor" sailor's cap and waving, sit atop a table waiting on a bus. San Francisco.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 2)
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