You may want to explore some Internet resources to supplement or enhance your research. Always be cautious of information you find on the Web since the quality of sources varies tremendously on the Internet. It is always a good idea to check the information against another source. As with all information resources, whether in print or on the Internet, you evaluate its quality based on the following criteria:
Go the the Librarians' Internet Index, <http://www.lii.org>,
to search for other recommended sites.
Suggestion: Do a keyword search for:
Once you find a good site listed, try the subject headings listed below the annotated citations in LII for more information.
Amache
Digital Collections Project - provides easy online access
to materials from the collections at both the Colorado Historical
Society and Auraria relating to the Japanese-American relocation
camp located at Amache in South-Eastern Colorado during World
War II.
Amache,
Colorado: The Granada Relocation Center Site
Asian American
Comparative Collection: The Kooskia Internment Camp Project - "...An
obscure and virtually-forgotten World War II detention facility
that was located in a remote area of north-central Idaho, 30
miles from the town of Kooskia, near the hamlet of Lowell.
One of a number of such camps throughout the United States,
it was administered by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) and held people of Japanese ancestry who were
termed "enemy aliens," even though most of them were
long-time U.S. residents, denied naturalization by racist U.S.
laws".
Confinement
and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American
Relocation Sites - Tells the story of the forced evacuations
of nearly 120,000 Japanese-American citizens following Pearl
Harbor and each of the War Relocation Authority internment
camps to which they were sent.
Conscience
and the Constitution - "delves into the heart of the
Japanese American conscience and a controversy that continues
today. Experience the choice faced by any group when confronted
by mass injustice -- whether to comply or to resist"
Go
For Broke Educational Foundation - the 100th/442nd/Military
Intelligence Service World War II Memorial Foundation has established
the Go For Broke Educational Foundation which is dedicated
to teaching the story of the Nisei soldiers of World War II,
as well as the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese Americans
and the civil liberties issues raised by those events.
Japanese
American Internment Site - sponsored by GeoCities. Contains
information and documents relating to this period, including
connections to other Web Sites with information on the evacuation
and incarceration of Japanese Americans. A copy of the original "Instructions
To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry" from J.L. DeWitt,
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, instructing Japanese in the
City of Los Angeles, CA to evacuate areas of Los Angeles is
included.
Japanese American National Museum -
located at 369 East First Street in Los Angeles, CA. The Japanese
American National Museum is the first museum in the United
States dedicated to sharing the experience of Americans of
Japanese ancestry. Through building a comprehensive collection
of Japanese American objects, images and documents and through
a multi-faceted program of exhibitions, educational programs,
films and publications, the Museum tells the story of Japanese
Americans around the country to a national and international
audience.
Japanese
American Network (JA*Net) "is a partnership of Japanese
American organizations based in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
A goal of this partnership is to encourage the use of the Internet
and interactive communications technologies to exchange information
about Japanese Americans -- art, culture, community, history,
news, events, social services, and public policy issues. The
website is a volunteer project and depends on community participation
and contributions."
Japanese
American Relocation Digital Archive - over "10,000
digital images [which] have been created [and which are] complimented
by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of document and
oral histories." 200+ photographs from the Los Angeles
Examiner "...documents the relocation of Japanese
Americans in California principally during the period 1941-1946.
Many of the photographs show daily life in the camps."
Japanese-Americans
Internment Camps During World War II - Photographs from the Special Collections
Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, and private collections,
of Topaz.
The Japanese American
Exhibit and Access Project is a multifaceted project to create a permanent
Web site which provides enhanced access to the University of Washington Libraries
holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Included
in the project is a virtual exhibit focusing on the Puyallup assembly center,
Camp Harmony, and enhanced access to archival guides and inventories of the
UW Libraries Manuscripts and University Archives Division.
JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archies - Related Sites and Resources: This site contains links to many wonderful resources on the Internet including Curricula and Lesson Plans (short video clips), Library, Archival, and Museum Collections and Exhibits, Publications on the Internet, and Films and Videorecordings
Life
Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas - Focuses
on the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II Arkansas, including
history, educational links, materials and resources for teachers and the public,
reading lists, a timeline, archival photos, recent press articles, downloadable
posters, panoramic views, and maps pinpointing Rohwer and Jerome camps
Manzanar
Free Press - four issues of the newsletter (Vol. I, No. 1 — April
11, 1942; Vol. III, No. 23 — March 20, 1943; Vol. IV, No. 1 — September,
10, 1943; Vol. XVI, No. 4 — September 28, 194) are available online from
the Manzanar National Historic Site, National Park Service. "From its
start as a simple means to disseminate information, the Manzanar Free Press
grew into an independent journal with international, national and camp news,
sports, editorials and gossip."
Manzanar
National Historic Site - The Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive
Center Opened on April 24, 2004 and includes 8,000 square feet of exhibits,
a bookstore, and theaters which show the site's award-winning 22-minute film "Remembering
Manzanar" every half hour. Click through the main links of Home, Information,
Visiting, History, Natural History, Volunteering, and Education to find many
more information filled links along the left side of the pages.
A
More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution - "this
exhibit explores this period when racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate
balance between the rights of the citizen and the power of the state" with
the relocation of Japanese Americans to camps during World War II
National
Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) - "dedicated to the preservation,
promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture
of Japanese Americans. ...Specializes in travelling exhibitions, publications,
videos, interactive multimedia, military and camp collections, and educational
programs"
Race, Racism and the Law - "considers
race, racism and racial distinctions in the law; It examines the role of the
law in promoting and/or alleviating racism. The site includes statutes, cases,
excerpts of law review articles, annotated bibliographies and other documents
related to race and racism".
San Francisco News for
the first six months of 1942, carried almost daily reports of FBI and police
sweeps of the Japanese American communities, and the various proclamations,
plans - and restriction of their civil liberties - issued by Lieutenant-General
John L. DeWitt at the Presidio. When reading these articles it must be understood
that they reflect their time; words and ideas repugnant and appalling to us
today are used, and discussed, freely, in the News' columns. (Museum of the
City of San Francisco)
Social
Issues Collection - "historical images primarily from
Washington State organized around the following topics: Japanese
and Chinese Americans; the World War II Japanese internment
camps of Camp Harmony (Puyallup) and Minidoka (Idaho);" and
other topics. University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections.
Suffering
Under a Great Injustice: - Ansel Adams's Photographs of
Japanese American Internment at Manzanar - 209 photographic
prints and his book Born Free and Equal, and more
War
Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 - This
Exhibit features images from approximately forty photographs
taken for the War Relocation Authority and vividly depicts
life in Arizona's two camps, Poston and Gila.
The
War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger
than Justice - "Teaching with Historic Places Lesson
Plans," includes maps, readings, photographs and layouts
of the Manzanar and Rowher camps, activities, and links to
related Web sites. From the U.S. National Park Service.
Wegars, Priscilla. "The
Japanese Internment Camp Near Kooskia, Idaho, 1943-1945." PNLA
Quarterly 63: 1 (Fall 1998) n.pag. 15 May 2000. - "'Digging in the
documents' has produced INS, Forest Service, and Border Patrol photographs
and other records. These, combined with internee and employee oral and written
interviews, illuminate the internees' experiences, emphasizing the perspectives
of the men detained at the Kooskia Internment Camp. This is an excerpt from
a much longer, fully-footnoted manuscript entitled, 'A Real He-Man's Job: Japanese
Internees and the Kooskia Internment Camp, Idaho, 1943-1945.' It and all materials
generated by this project will eventually be housed in the Asian American Comparative
Collection at the University of Idaho, Moscow."
When
Military Necessity Overrides Constitutional Guarantees: The Treatment of Japanese
Americans During World War II. - Curriculum content from Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute.
Some of these links were found through Librarians' Internet Index and those annotations were adapted from the LII list (Copyright 2005 by Librarians' Internet Index, lii.org.)
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