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4. The Decision to Relocate
Rebecca Damren, Japanese American Internment, Photo 4
Photo: Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II, www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/t12.htm
After Pearl Harbor, the whole state of Hawaii came under martial law in the panic that Japanese Americans on the islands would plan similar attacks and send word back to Japan. Roosevelt immediately signed proclamations that allowed the FBI to arrest any aliens that were seen as “dangerous to public peace of safety.” It also wasn’t long before a list of contraband items was put out and any Japanese American in possession of guns, cameras, radios, dynamite, and other such things were considered disloyal and dangerous. One of the biggest supporters of the internment movement was General John DeWitt. In his “Final Recommendation,” he states that Japanese Americans are members of an “enemy race” whether they were American citizens or not and that “undiluted racial strains” made them all innately Japanese. Finally, on February 19th, 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 that gave the military the right to designate “military areas” upon which anyone could be excluded. However, Japanese Americans were the only group to suffer from this order in which their evacuation to the internment camps was depicted as a military necessity. In this picture, the executive order is being carried out as people and luggage are unloaded from a truck and a small girl if gruffly stopped from wandering by a guard.
Daniels, Roger, “The Decision for Mass Evacuation,” Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Patterson, Anita Haya. “Resistance to Images of the Internment: Mitsuye Yamada’s ‘Camp Notes,’” MELUS. (1998): 103-127.
Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
4. The Decision to Relocate
Rebecca Damren, Japanese American Internment, Photo 4
Photo: Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II, www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/t12.htm
After Pearl Harbor, the whole state of Hawaii came under martial law in the panic that Japanese Americans on the islands would plan similar attacks and send word back to Japan. Roosevelt immediately signed proclamations that allowed the FBI to arrest any aliens that were seen as “dangerous to public peace of safety.” It also wasn’t long before a list of contraband items was put out and any Japanese American in possession of guns, cameras, radios, dynamite, and other such things were considered disloyal and dangerous. One of the biggest supporters of the internment movement was General John DeWitt. In his “Final Recommendation,” he states that Japanese Americans are members of an “enemy race” whether they were American citizens or not and that “undiluted racial strains” made them all innately Japanese. Finally, on February 19th, 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 that gave the military the right to designate “military areas” upon which anyone could be excluded. However, Japanese Americans were the only group to suffer from this order in which their evacuation to the internment camps was depicted as a military necessity. In this picture, the executive order is being carried out as people and luggage are unloaded from a truck and a small girl if gruffly stopped from wandering by a guard.
Daniels, Roger, “The Decision for Mass Evacuation,” Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Patterson, Anita Haya. “Resistance to Images of the Internment: Mitsuye Yamada’s ‘Camp Notes,’” MELUS. (1998): 103-127.
Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.