General Website Resources:
Utah Online Library
Topaz Museum
Exploring the Japanese American Interment
Exploring the Japanese American Interment
https://caamedia.org/jainternment/siteoverview.html
https://caamedia.org/jainternment/siteoverview.html
Densho Encyclopedia
Denscho Encyclopedia
A free on-line resource about the history of the Japanese American WWII exclusion and incarceration experience
https://encyclopedia.densho.org/
A free on-line resource about the history of the Japanese American WWII exclusion and incarceration experience
https://encyclopedia.densho.org/
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum
http://www.janm.org/
http://www.janm.org/
Discover Nikkei
Discover Nikkei
Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/
Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/
Topaz
Facts about Topaz
http://topazmuseum.org/facts-about-topaz Hisako Hibi Collection http://www.janm.org/collections/hisako-hibi-collection/ Utah History Encyclopedia https://ilovehistory.utah.gov/time/stories/topaz.html National Park Service: Topaz https://www.nps.gov/places/central-utah-relocation-center-site.htm Densho Encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Topaz/ |
Videos:
Dave Tatsuno Obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/us/dave-tatsuno-92-whose-home-movies-captured-history-dies.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=900C3D2804B688E7DBDFC8CA85E725C4&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/us/dave-tatsuno-92-whose-home-movies-captured-history-dies.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=900C3D2804B688E7DBDFC8CA85E725C4&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL
Gallery
Additional Resources:
Prejudice & Propaganda
U.S. discrimination of Issei before World War II
https://caamedia.org/jainternment/ww2/prewar.html School segregation in California in the early 1900s http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Gentlemen%27s_Agreement/ California Alien Land Laws of 1913 and 1920 http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/ Cable Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Act Experience of the Harada Family of Riverside, CA. www.riversideca.gov/museum/harada.asp |
Key Names
Franklin Roosevelt US President Executive Order 9066 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154 Densho Encyclopedia http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Franklin%20D.%20Roosevelt/ Delos Emmons Genearl who prevented the exclusion of the Japanese on Hawaiian islands http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Delos%20Emmons/ Colonel Karl R. Bendetsen, architect of the internment http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Karl%20Bendetsen/ Milton Eisenhower: first Director of the War Relocation Authority http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Milton%20Eisenhower/ Earl Warren: Attorney General of California at the time of internment http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Earl%20Warren General John L. DeWitt: in charge of Western Defense Command in World War II and strong proponent for internment. http://encyclopedia.densho.org/John%20DeWitt/ Robert B. Cozzens" Assistant Director of the War Relocation Authority: http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft1290031s;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e720&toc.id=d0e717&brand=calisphere&query=Carmel%20Mission Herbert B. Maw: Governor of Utah at the time: http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/Topaz/id/8175 Frank Knox: Secretary of the Navy during most of World War II http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Frank%20Knox/ Curtis B. Munson: wrote the Munson Report http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Munson%20Report/ The War Relocation Authority: responsible for enforcing Executive Order 9066 http://encyclopedia.densho.org/War%20Relocation%20Authority/ Lim Report http://www.resisters.com/study/LimTOC.htm Native Sons of the Golden West http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Regan%20v.%20King/ |
Temporary Assembly Centers & 10 WRA (War Relocation Authority) Relocation Centers--the Camps
WRA Relocation Centers--Camps
WRA Relocation Centers
Tule Lake Manzanar Poston Gila River Minidoka Topaz Heart Mountain Granada Rohwer Jerome |
Additional Information on Centers:
Crystal Lake Japanese and German immigrants deported from Latin American countries stayed at this camp http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Crystal%20City%20(detention%20facility)/ German and Italian immigrants were also detained: German American Internee Coalition: History https://gaic.info/history/ The Interment of Italian Americans during WWII http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1207&context=pilr |
Resisters and Court Challenges
Ex Parte Endo
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Ex_parte_Endo/ Hirabayashi vs. United States https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Hirabayashi_v._United_States/ Yasui vs. The United States https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Yasui_v._United_States/ The Loyalty Questionaire ttps://www.intimeandplace.org/Japanese%20Internment/reading/loyaltyquestions.html |
Japanese Americans Role in WWII
Japanese Americans in military during World War II
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Japanese_Americans_in_military_during_World_War_II/ Go for Broke: National Education Center To educate and inspire character and equality through the virtue and valor of our World War II American veterans of Japanese ancestry. http://www.goforbroke.org/ NPS: Japanese American Memorial https://www.nps.gov/places/japanese-american-memorial-to-patriotism-during-world-war-ii.htm National Japanese American Historical Society Research on 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team https://www.njahs.org/100th-442nd-regimental-combat-team/ |
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Primary Sources
Topaz Museum Digital Archive
http://www.topazmuseum.org/resources-0 Densho Digital Repository http://ddr.densho.org/?archive.densho.org=1&id=216 Tanforan Totalizer http://ddr.densho.org/search/?fulltext=tanforan+totalizer&facility=15 Topaz Times https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/search?facet_paper=%22Topaz+Times%22 Trek https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/Topaz/id/5285 All Aboard https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/Topaz/id/5074 Japanese Interment Camp Newspapers Library of Congress |
Apologies & Reparations
National Coalition for Redress/Reparations
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/National_Coalition_for_Redress/Reparations/ National Council for Japanese American Redress http://encyclopedia.densho.org/National%20Council%20for%20Japanese%20American%20Redress/ Civil Liberties Act of 1988http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Civil%20Liberties%20Act%20of%201988/ |