Project Name: Japanese American Internment - National Archives

Project Name: Japanese American Internment (draft)

Purpose

Raise awareness of NARA's role in safeguarding historic materials, photos, and records.

Message

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of FDR's Executive Order 9066 that interned Japanese Americans during World War II, the National Archives makes widely available its extensive related holdings including photos, videos, and records that chronicle this chapter in American history.

Team Lead Team Agency Stakeholders Non-NARA Stakeholders

Kerri Lawrence & Miriam Kleiman Hilary Parkinson, John Heyn, Brian Barth, Jessie Kratz

FDR Library, Research

Public including Japanese Americans, JANM,

External Products

Web Page



Press Release

JANM Press release dated January 26, 2017 (Kleiman to add link)

FDR Library Press Release: Exhibit

New Story

News story written for news (Lawrence to add link)

Video Historic Videos

Other Videos/Photos

Social media video of Dorothea Lange photographs (Heyn/Parkinson)

Japanese-American internment video , from the FDR Library's Pare Lorentz Center for

Articles Prologue

Blogs

documentary film Democracy Starts Here - the National Archives "signature film" features Cherry Tsutsumida, Civil Rights Activist and Director of the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, who was incarcerated as a child with her family and later fought for justice for Japanese Americans.

U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II

1944 Newsreel: A Challenge to Democracy War Relocation Authority film defending the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. NARA ID: 39226

The Past Recaptured? The Photographic Record of the Internment of JapaneseAmericans files/research/japanese-americans/prologue-1980.pdf

How an eagle feels when his wings are clipped and caged: Relocation Center Newspapers Describe Japanese American Internment in World War II publications/prologue/2009/winter/wra.html

Return to Sender: U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II publications/prologue/2001/spring/mail-censorship-in-world-war-two1.html

A "New" FDR Emerges: Historians, Teachers, Authors Take a Fresh, Sometimes Critical, Look at Roosevelt publications/prologue/2006/winter/fdr-emerges.html

Pieces of History: The orphan called Tokyo Rose

The draft dodgers of 1944

On display: Executive Order 9066 and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

The Text Message: A Slap's a Slap: General John L. DeWitt and Four Little Words

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Halloween at the Tule Lake Relocation Center

Education Online Resources



FDR Library - Japanese-American Internment: World War II "Teachable Moment"



'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy': The First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address



Online Engagement Opportunity

Citizen Archivist Dashboard - Transcribe this record! An Act of August 10, 1988, Public Law 100-383, 102 STAT 903, to Implement Recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, 8/10/1988.

transcribe.citizen-archivist/transcribe/featured.html

Social Media Twitter Facebook Instagram

@USNatArchives will post social media video and applicable links US National Archives will post video and applicable links We'll post # materials from various NARA platforms

Exhibits DC Area

Records of Rights Exhibit: Japanese American Internment, 1942

Presidential FDR Library Online Exhibit/Virtual Tour

Libraries





Online Exhibits

Featured Document: Japan's Instrument of Surrender



Outreach Initiative

Loan of Executive Order 9066 to the Japanese American National Museum Loan of Executive Order 9066 to the Smithsonian American History Museum

Events DC Area

Featured Activity in ReSource Room: Japanese Internment Boeing Learning Center, National Archives, Washington, DC Wednesday, February 1, 2017 through February 28, 2017 - 10:00am to 4:00pm Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1941, and put into motion the process of Japanese Internment. Stop by the Boeing Learning Center this month to engage in hands-on activities and immerse yourself in a world of spies and suppressed evidence to solve the mystery of how the National Archives helped right the wrongs of Japanese Internment.

Presidential Libraries

IMAGES OF INTERNMENT: THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II : February 19, 2017 on Location: vanden Heuvel Gallery

Other Sites

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California: Exhibition "Instruction to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066" featuring the original Executive Order authorizing WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, on loan from National Archives; Exhibit open from February 18 through August 13, 2017.

Internal Products

NARA Notices Declarations ICN

Story featuring records from our Catalog, events, and the webpage

Digital Signs NARA@work

Signs pointing to Declarations story and webpage

Related Links

Research Links

National Archives: Japanese Americans

World War II Enemy Alien Control Program Overview

Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)

Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group

Personal Justice Denied - the 467-page report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) that concluded that Executive Order 9066 was not justified by military necessity.

FDR Library FDR and Japanese American Internment

Truman Library The War Relocation Authority & the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II x.php?action=docs

Ford Library Ford's Proclamation 4417, Confirming the Termination of the Executive Order Authorizing Japanese-American Internment During World War II

Ford's Remarks Upon Signing Proclamation 4417

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