1. Japanese Internment

2. Question
In response to the War on Terror, should we round up all Americans of Arab descent or Muslim faith and relocate them?
What is the proper balance between liberty and security?

3. Paranoia Leading to Internment
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
,000 people of Japanese descent live on west coast
Fear of sabotage, spying or 5th column activities
Issei
Born in Japan
Nisei
Full citizens born in US

4. Executive Order 9066 February 19, 1942 Broad powers to military
Forcibly removed to “relocation centers”
110,000+ Japanese Americans
3,200 Italian Americans
11,000 German Americans

5. Camp Life Dismal surroundings-looked to improve
Employment- self-sufficient
Food
mix of traditional Japanese and American food
Subject to same rations as everyone else
Medical Care
Hospitals staffed largely by Japanese Americans
Education
Provided by white and Japanese teachers (buddaheads)
Baseball

6. Baseball
Baseball in Japanese Internment Camps

7. Camp Locations

8. 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Made up of men already in service
Replacements from camps- volunteers
Served in Europe
Most had never been to Japan nor speak Japanese
Most decorated unit of its size
Other duties
Intelligence, interpreters, translators

9. Korematsu v. The United States
Fred Korematsu refused to leave his home
1944 went before Supreme Court
6-3 decision against Korematsu
Court ruled that need to protect against espionage outweighed the rights of Japanese Americans

10. Justice Hugo Black
“All legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect and subject to tests of the most rigid scrutiny, not all such restrictions are inherently unconstitutional. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can."

11. President Reagan Apologizes
Most released Jan. 1945
Property taken, financial ruin
1948- $37 million appropriated as reparations
1988- additional $20,000 in reparations
President Reagan officially apologizes

12. Japanese Canadian Internment Camps
British Columbia
23,000 moved by train to
Men, women and children separated
Military officials said fears unwarranted
Property sold
After war forced to leave country, move east of Rocky Mountains
1949 could regained freedom of movement
1988- $21,000 given directly to those affected

13. Political Cartoon/ Blog
Now that you have some background on the Internment of Japanese of Americans, you need to do a few things.
Create a political cartoon
Blog a letter from a camp