Citizenship, Civil Rights

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Citizenship, Civil Rights Japanese Internment
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Tough Terms

• Alien
• Nativism
• Xenophobia
• Issei
• Nisei

Nisei soldier World War II era
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Historical Background

• Aliens or Immigrants
• Asian Immigration American Nativism
  (1870s-1920s)
• Legacies of Anti-Asian Sentiment

Harpers Weekly illustration from 1870s was
critical of anti-Chinese sentiment.
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WWII Japanese Internment

• Nativism by the Bombs Early Light
• FDR Executive Order 9066
• Camp Life

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Illustration and Writing Project

• Individual Creative Writing
• Small Group Discussion
• Large Group Discussion of Illustrations

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Image 1
Wanto Grocery, owned by an Asian American, UC
Berkeley graduate. (California, December 1941)
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Image 2
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.
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Image 3
Dorothea Lange, One Nation Indivisible. Pledge
of Allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a
few weeks prior to evacuation. (San Francisco,
1942)
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Image 4
Japanese Americans register for internment at the
Santa Anita reception center in Los Angeles.
(1942) Library of Congress
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Image 5
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
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Image 6
Japanese Americans waiting to board the train
that will take them to the internment camp in
Owens Valley. (April 1942)
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Image 7
All Packed Up and Ready to Go Editorial
Cartoon, San Francisco News (March 6, 1942)
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Image 8
Family arriving in internment camp barracks, from
the Tacoma New Tribune, University of Washington.
(no date)
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Image 9
An American Soldier on guard duty at an
internment camp holds a Japanese American child.
Tacoma News Tribune, University of Washington.
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Image 10
Internment camp mess hall. Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, University of Washington.
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Image 11
Byron, Takashi Tsuzuki, Forced Removal, Act II,
1944. Japanese American National Museum
Collection.
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Image 12
G.S. Hante, a barber in Kent, Washington,
displays his sentiments about internment. (March
1944)
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The Rest of the Story

• Confiscation and Property Loss
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Apology Reparations

George H. W. Bushs apology to Japanese Americans
held in the internment camps. (1988)