1. Citizenship, Civil Rights & Japanese Internment

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. 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)