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Official Documents

Executive Order No. 9066

Map showing locations of the internment camps

Final report on Japanese evacuation from Pacific Coast

Supreme Court upholds evacuation
 
American Friends Service Committee Information Bulletins

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Online Exhibits

Confinement and Ethnicity

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona

Camp Harmony Exhibit

Rabbit in the Moon

The Life and Work of George Hoshida
 

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Stories

Norman Mineta's story

Japanese American oral histories (click Browse to browse texts, then scroll down to find oral histories) from the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives of the Online Archive of California

Dear Miss Breed:  Letters from Camp . . .
 

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Photos

The American Memory collection, “Suffering Under a Great Injustice”: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar , contains pictures relevant to this topic. Click on the small image to see a larger one. 

More photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 .  To see more images related to Japanese-American internment, search using keywords Japanese or relocation.  Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Dorothea Lange Photos

The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives of the Online Archive of California has imagess from the relocation. Scroll down to select images (paintings, photos, etc.) by assembly center, internment camp, photographer, and/or region.

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

To see a series of photos about Japanese-American internments, search using keyword Japanese relocation .

"A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry waits with the family baggage before leaving by bus for an assembly center in the spring of 1942." Clem Albers, CA, April 1942.

"Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro. Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers." Clem Albers, Arcadia, CA, April 5, 1942.

"Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration." Dorothea Lange, Manzanar, CA, July 3, 1942.

Newspaper headlines of Japanese Relocation.

These photos are in the American Passages collection of Thomson-Wadsworth Publishers .

Photos from evacuation (click on the small photos to see entire image)
 

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Pamphlets

This pamphlet is in the collection of the University of Washington Libraries .

Relocation of Japanese Americans
 

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Audio and Video

Many audio clips require audio player software plug-ins.

Click for a free download of  RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is in the upper corner on the far right) or Windows Media Player  or WinAmp .

Gov. Olson, California (WAV)
 

You'll need to download the RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is in the upper corner on the far right) or the QuickTime software to view this video material.

These videos are in the collection of Internet Moving Pictures Archive (at archive.org). To view, under "Stream", click "Real" for the RealPlayer version or "QT" for the QuickTime version.

Children of Japan
(This is a pre-war movie; it makes an interesting contrast to the wartime movies.)

A Challenge to Democracy

Japanese Relocation
 

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Newspapers

WARNING!!! Many of these documents are racist in nature and offensive in tone.
 

These articles are in the collection of the Museum of San Francisco .

Collection of newspaper articles (this site also includes a slide show of the Manzanar camp)
 

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