Japanese Americans: Internment Camps and other facts

First source is an interview kind of thing from a Japanese American who now works as the "Global Head of Philanthropic Services at J.P.Morgan Private Bank."

• Her mother was one of the many people who spent time in these camps, while her dad served occupation duty in Japan.
• After the war and her mother was set free and her dad came back home, she and her 3 older sister learned to value education.
• Basically what this source is saying is that the Japanese Americans were set free after the war, and people like her were still able to get a good education.

The second source is from the Smithsonian Institution.

• Review of art galleries based on telling the American story.
• 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent to the interment camps.
• more than 2/3 of those people were American citizens by birth, meaning they probably had no connection with people living in Japan.
• most were given barely a week's notice to "settle their affairs" meaning sell their house, pack, and then report to camp.
• barren locations
• some drafted into the U.S. armed forces
• many people made beautiful objects while in the camps, and that is how the art galleries are connected with this story.

The third source comes from: Former Japanese American internees fight to preserve internment camps.(WWII Today).

• like previous sources, nearly 120,000 were sent over, most of them American citizens by birth.
• After the war was over, the camps were basically destroyed
• These people actually want to preserve the camps, not because they were enjoyable, but to tell genereations and gernerations of people what happened at the internment camps and during WW2

The fourtth source is from Dilemma: Defining Moments 2 Executive Order 9066 - Japanese-American Internment

• Feb. 19, 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066. Gave authority to military to relocate "suspicious residents in areas deemed militarily sensitive."
• March 2, 1942,  Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, the chief of the Western Defense Command, ordered the exclusion or removal of all Japanese Americans from California, Oregon, and Washington State.
• Two important legal cases were brought against the United States concerning internment. The cases were Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), and Korematsu v. United States (1944).
• Defendants argued that gov. violated their Fifth Amendment rights= ancestry.
• Both cases, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the U.S. government.
•  In 1944, two and a half years after signing Executive Order 9066, President Roosevelt took back the order, repealed it.
•  The last of the internment camps were closed at the end of 1945.
• In 1968, around 24 years after camps were closed, gov. began to give back Japanese Americans money or land for property they had lost.
• In 1988, Congress passed legislation that allowed the U.S.  to give out $20,000 to each to the surviving internees, some 60,000 Japanese Americans in all.

The fifth source is from Wikipedia and is a definition.

•  " Internment is the process of confining a group of people, usually prisoners of war or enemy alien residents, in a restricted area. The U.S. government interned many Japanese Americans in "relocation camps" during World War II merely because of their hereditary links to an enemy nation. "

I am doing this blog post at home because I spent the entire time in class just searching for information. I hope that it's ok for my post to be on Saturday instead of on Thursday.