Japanese-American Internment Camps-Petersen and Co.(Morgan and Paige)
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Executive Order 9066
A map of the different campsPresident FDR issued this order to send about 120,000 Japanese-Americans from their homes to Internment Camps around the United States.
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Internment Camps of America
Camps were established to seperate Japanese-Americans from other members of the United States to eliminate spies. Conditions were horrible and many people died of starvation, being worked to death, and many harsh diseases.
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Public Proclomation Number 1
General John L. DeWitt issues this proclomation to send Japanese-Americans to camps. Creates Number 2 which hints at exclusion from Number 1 for some people.
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Proclomations 1 & 2 to Take Effect
By the end of October over 108 exclusions have been released. All of orders 1 and most of 2 have been completed or put into effect.
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Strifes in an internees life
Forty-five-year-old Ichiro Shimoda, a Los Angeles gardener, is shot to death by guards while trying to escape from Fort Still (Oklahoma) internment camp. The victim was seriously mentally ill, having attempted suicide twice since being picked up on December 7. He is shot despite the guards' knowledge of his mental state.
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Movie is Released
The movie "Little Tokyo, U.S.A." is released by Twentieth Century Fox. In it, the Japanese American community is portrayed as a "vast army of volunteer spies" and "blind worshippers of their Emperor, " as described in the film's voice-over prologue.
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Tule Lake Closes
Incredible mass evacuation where most people are elderly, impoverished or mentaly ill with no where to go.
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Some hardships faced after their release: Loss of property and businesses and pyscicological disorders.
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302 people released
Judge Goodman says that petitions released in 1945 are correct. American born U.S. citizens can not be made into illegal aliens. 302 people are released from the Crystal City.
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Japanese-American Evacuation Claims Act
President Truman signed the Japanese-American Evacuation Claims Act which is used to compensate Japanese-Americans of economic losses due to their evacuation. $28 millon spent, though was quite ineffective.
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Resolution by the Japanese-American Citizen League
This called for reparations for the WW2 incarceration of Japanese-Americans.
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Violations Act into Congress
Mike Lowry introduces this act into Congress to support Japanese-Americans who were interned. $15,000 per victim plus $15 per day interned. Congress turns it down for the JACL supported studies commision bill.
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CWRIC Public Hearing
In Washington D.C. a public hearing was held by the CWRIC for the investigation of internment camps. Personal stories were shared which were very emotional and told by internees who were held in Japanese-American internment camps. Similar hearings were told all around the country throughout 1981. This was a major turning point for the Japanese-Americans.
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Quotes on The Internment (Paige's Birthday)
"It was really cruel and harsh. To pack and evacuate in forty-eight hours was an impossibility. Seeing mothers completely bewildered with children crying from want and peddlers taking advantage and offering prices next to robbery made me feel like murdering those responsible without the slightest compunction in my heart." Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara speaking of the Terminal Island evacuation.
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Quotes on Internment
"I remember the soldiers marching us to the Army tank and I looked at their rifles and I was just terrified because I could see this long knife at the end . . . I thought I was imagining it as an adult much later . . . I thought it couldn't have been bayonets because we were just little kids." from "Children of the Camps spoken at most CWRIC assemblies.
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H.R.442
A Bill signed into law by Ronald Reagan which gives $20,000 to any living internee. They grant $1.25 billion to spend for educating other provisions.
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The Redress Ceremony
Washington D.C. The first nine payments are made out. Rev. Mamoru Eto of Los Angeles, a 107 year old man, is the first to get his check.
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