1. U.S. Internment History http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65zZUjZShq8&feature=related

2. Executive Order 9066 February 19, 1942 The military was permitted to bypass the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of National Defense.

3. Why Intern Japanese-Americans? Fears of participation in a West Coast invasion. Spies Disloyalty Hysteria

4. Japanese life before internment Hawaii, California, Alaska, Oregon, Washington. Buy Homes Own Farms/Businesses Go to School

5. What happens? Racial Prejudice

6. “I’m for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawaii now and putting them in concentration camps….Damn them! Let’s get rid of them now!” --Congressman John Rankin, Congressional Record, Feb.19,1942

7. What happens? 110,000 persons (W. Coast) are removed to relocation camps. –Japanese in Hawaii “ignored” 2/3 were Nisei – American Born – Citizens

8. U.S. Relocation Camps

9. Life during the internment Tar paper shacks / no insulation No plumbing Isolated, Cramped living Barbed-wire fences Ok, if you follow the rules

10. Japanese-Americans “prove” loyalty 442 nd Regiment –“Purple Heart” Unit Most decorated unit in U.S. military history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKEShL8OUU&feature=related

11. Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Congress apologies Make resitituion Provide education to the public about the internment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgmY2P-xT_Y&NR=1&feature=fvwp