Citizenship, Civil Rights & Japanese Internment

Tough Terms Alien Nativism Xenophobia Issei Nisei Nisei soldier World War II era

Historical Background Aliens or Immigrants Asian Immigration & American Nativism (1870s-1920s) Legacies of Anti-Asian Sentiment Harper’s Weekly illustration from 1870s was critical of anti- Chinese sentiment.

WWII & Japanese Internment Nativism by the Bombs’ Early Light FDR & Executive Order 9066 Camp Life

Illustration and Writing Project Individual Creative Writing Small Group Discussion Large Group Discussion of Illustrations

Image 1 Wanto Grocery, owned by an Asian American, UC Berkeley graduate. (California, December 1941)

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.

Image 3 Dorothea Lange, “One Nation Indivisible.” Pledge of Allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks prior to evacuation. (San Francisco, 1942)

Image 4 Japanese Americans register for internment at the Santa Anita reception center in Los Angeles. (1942) Library of Congress

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

Image 6 Japanese Americans waiting to board the train that will take them to the internment camp in Owens Valley. (April 1942)

Image 7 “All Packed Up and Ready to Go” Editorial Cartoon, San Francisco News (March 6, 1942)

Image 8 Family arriving in internment camp barracks, from the Tacoma New Tribune, University of Washington. (no date)

Image 9 An American Soldier on guard duty at an internment camp holds a Japanese American child. Tacoma News Tribune, University of Washington.

Image 10 Internment camp mess hall. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, University of Washington.

Image 11 Byron, Takashi Tsuzuki, Forced Removal, Act II, Japanese American National Museum Collection.

Image 12 G.S. Hante, a barber in Kent, Washington, displays his sentiments about internment. (March 1944)

The Rest of the Story Confiscation and Property Loss Korematsu v. United States (1944) Apology & Reparations George H. W. Bush’s apology to Japanese Americans held in the internment camps. (1988)