Useful Links
FDR orders Japanese Americans into internment camps
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-signs-executive-order-9066
Executive Order No. 9066 – Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/executive-order-no-9066-resulting-in-the-relocation-of-japanese/
Japanese Americans exiled to prison camps 80 years ago by FDR’s Executive Order 9066
USC Dornsife experts discuss the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision as the nation marks a day that will live on in infamy for many of the Japanese American families and their descendants
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3639/experts-discuss-executive-order-9066-80-year-anniversary/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-signs-executive-order-9066
Executive Order No. 9066 – Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/executive-order-no-9066-resulting-in-the-relocation-of-japanese/
Japanese Americans exiled to prison camps 80 years ago by FDR’s Executive Order 9066
USC Dornsife experts discuss the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision as the nation marks a day that will live on in infamy for many of the Japanese American families and their descendants
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3639/experts-discuss-executive-order-9066-80-year-anniversary/
Primary Sources
Executive order 9066
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066
Civilian Exclusion Order: Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1694663
On This Day: Executive Order 9066 and Japanese-American Internment
In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps in various locations in the western part of the United States. The video clips below offer background information on this topic as well as historical photos that help portray events during this time period.
Milton Eisenhower hosted and narrated this 1943 film that attempts to justify the need to move Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes to internment camps in isolated areas of the west and mid-west.
https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?1837
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066
Civilian Exclusion Order: Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1694663
On This Day: Executive Order 9066 and Japanese-American Internment
In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps in various locations in the western part of the United States. The video clips below offer background information on this topic as well as historical photos that help portray events during this time period.
Milton Eisenhower hosted and narrated this 1943 film that attempts to justify the need to move Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes to internment camps in isolated areas of the west and mid-west.
https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?1837