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Japanese Internment Camps: Primary Sources
This guide was created to explore the topics in the 2022-2023 reading of "They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei
They Called Us Enemy
Words Matter
Historical Context
Primary Sources
Establishing Credibility
Reliable Primary Sources (580 x 1920 px)
by LKaras UofSC Upstate
For more information See the Primary Source LibGuide
Internment Artifacts: Photos, Letters, & More
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Camp Harmony Exhibit: University of Washington Archives
Densho Densho Digital Repository
Flaherty Collection - Japanese Internment Records
The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement A Digital Archive
Japanese American National Museum - Web Resources
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Densho Newspapers in Camp
Topaz Japanese American Relocation Center Digital Collection
The Museum of the City of San Francisco
Teaching & Primary Sources
NY Times Teaching Japanes-American Internment using Primary Sources
PBS Teaching Using Primary Sources
Zinn Education Japanese American
The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement A Digital Archive
Government Orders, Acts, & Documents
Civilian Excusion Orders (1942)
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Compensation and Reparations for the Evacuation, Relocation, and Internment Index (Redress Case Files)
Document for February 19th: Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9102 Establishing the War Relocation Authority
NARA: Japanese-American Internment & Relocation Records
Personal justice denied : report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians : report for the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
Presidential Proclamation 2525 - Enemy Aliens (1941)
Japanese Relocation by U.S. Office of War Information
Primary Source Documents
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
The CSUJAD project includes collections from 17 California State University campuses as well as a wide variety of other institutions, including the Japanese American National Museum, California Historical Society and others.
Document for February 19th: Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese
National Archive page for EO 9066 including transcripts, linked reading, and teacher lesson plans.
The Museum of the City of San Francisco
Look for scanned articles from March and April 1942 for primary accounts of the removal of Japanese Americans from San Francisco.
Primary Sources
“Flaherty Collection - Japanese Internment Records.” Flaherty Collection - Japanese Internment Records | SJSU Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.sjsu.edu/flaherty-japanese-internment.
The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital Archive - the Bancroft Library - UC Berkeley Library, https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/jacs/index.html.
“The Suyama Project.” UCLA Asian American Studies Center, http://www.suyamaproject.org/.
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